Themed images for Saint-Vincent-Paul.

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Mon, 07/12/2010 - 10:24 - Stained glass. St. Godard Rouen France 12/07/2010.
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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.

 

Sat, 08/29/2009 - 17:22 - Church of Saint Joseph. La Bourboule, Auvergne, France 29/08/2009.
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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.