Vincent de Paul«Vincenç de Pau / Vincentius a Paulo»

(1581–1660)
Founder, Priest
Orders/Societies Associated with: Association International de la Charite [AIC]*; Daughters of Charity / Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent De Paul**; Vincentians / Lazarists***
Place of birth:Kingdom of France†
Place of death:Kingdom of France
Feastday
27 September
Beatification
13/08/1729 by Benedictus XIII
Canonisation
16/06/1737 by Clemens XII
Patronage
Patron of:Madagascar††; Richmond, Virginia; Vietnam†††
Patron of:charitable societies, horses, hospital workers, hospitals, lepers, prisoners, Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory School, San Francisco, California, Society of Saint Vincent de Paul, Vincentian Service Corps, volunteers
Petitioned for: spiritual help, to find lost objects
Invoked against:leprosy
*Confraternities of Charity [1617/1633]
**Company of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul / Societas Filiarum Caritatis a Sancto Vincentio de Paulo [1633]
***Congregation of the Mission / Congregatio Missionis [1625]
†Reaume de France / Royaulme de France / Royaume de France / Regnum Franciae [987–1792 / 1814–1815 / 1815–1848]
††Madagasikara
†††Việt Nam

Saints

This is by no means an exhaustive collection of saints. Many newly canonised saints may be missing and many local saints for which I could only find scant information on have been left out. But this is a substantial collection nonetheless.

The names of the saints are listed as they would have appeared in the time the saint lived (to the best I can determine). Click on the saint’s name in the list to see more information about that saint. If you wish to see saints for a different date, select that date below. Or you can select a saint by their name or by places they are associated with.

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Sources

Information has been gathered predominantly from the following books:
D’Arcy, Mary Ryan. The Saints of Ireland. St. Paul, MN: Irish American Cultural Institute. 1974.
Kelly, Sean and Rogers, Rosemary. The Saint-a-Day Guide. New York: Random House Trade Paperback. 2001.
Ó Riain, Pádraig. A Dictionary of Irish Saints. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2011.
Thurston S.J., Herbert J. and Attwater Donald, eds. Butler’s Lives of the Saints. Westminster, MD: Christian Classics. 1990
and the following websites:
and various vetted articles in: Wikipedia