17th century French priest. He was taken captive by Turkish pirates, he became a dedicated to helping the poor, and galley slaves.
This window in St Godard in Rouen, depicts the life of St Vincent Paul a 17th century French priest who was captured by Turkish pirates and sold as a slave in Tunis.
On his return to France he began a number of missions working amongst the poor peasants, and French galley slaves. In 1633 he founded the Daughters of Charity which set up many hospitals, orphanages, and schools.
This stained-glass window depicts St Vincent de Paul, the seventeenth-century priest and reformer renowned for his devotion to the poor and the founding of charitable congregations. Designed and executed by François Taureilles, a glass-painter based in Clermont-Ferrand, it exemplifies the luminous clarity and compassionate realism characteristic of his early-twentieth-century ecclesiastical work.