Saint Vincent De Paul: C. 1581 - 1660 - Couverture souple

Forbes, Frances A.M.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0895556219 ISBN 13 : 9780895556219

Editeur : Tan Books & Publishers Inc., 1999

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

F. A. Forbes "I ask of you only one word," said Vincent to the Ladies of Charity. "Will you go on with the work or no?" Ten years before, the Ladies of Charity had begun taking in babies left homeless and helpless in the streets of Paris. They had started out with twelve little ones. A decade later, 4,000 children-mostly still unbaptized-had been christened, adopted and cared for, and the numbers were still increasing. But now finances were stretched to the breaking point. The Thirty Years War was raging, there were many other needs, and it seemed impossible to care for the children any longer. However, knowing that their eternal destiny as well as their temporal welfare was at stake, Vincent's heart was about to break at the thought of abandoning these children. He stood pleading before the Ladies of Charity. Such was the great Apostle of Charity, St. Vincent de Paul. His remarkable life would begin in a peasant's cottage and would involve being captured and enslaved in northern Africa, escaping back to France, having clashes with the Jansenist heretics, rescuing countless foundling children, having political adven-tures at court, and giving birth to two great religious orders-the Vincentians and the Sisters of Charity. This is the story of the great Saint who put charity onto an organized basis and thus transformed not only Paris but the history of the Catholic Church.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Mother Frances Alice Monica Forbes, also known as F.A. Forbes, was born in 1869 into a Presbyterian family. She converted to Catholicism in 1900, and entered the Society of the Sacred Heart as a postulant when she was thirty-one. She was a strong-willed and intelligent woman, and used both these gifts to generously make the sacrifices that the Lord wished of her daily. F.A. Forbes authored a considerable amount of books based on the saints, including St. John Bosco: Friend of Youth, St. Monica, St. Catherine of Sienna, St. Benedict, and The Gripfast Series of English Readers. She died in 1936.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Tan Books & Publishers Inc.
• Date d'édition: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0895556219
• ISBN 13: 9780895556219
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 120