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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), entry st-vincent-de-paul-society-of (search)
St. Vincent de Paul, Society of A Roman Catholic organization engaged in the work of caring for the Roman Catholic poor in the large cities of the United States. Its head is the superior council of the New York Circumscription, which has its office at No. 2 Lafayette Place. Local bodies, over which it has, in nearly all cases, jurisdiction, are known as particular councils. The principal work of the particular councils consists in visiting the poor and relieving them, procuring situations for deserving persons out of employment, and promoting attendance on the Sunday-schools of the Church. There are sixty-five councils in the city of New York.
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 6: (search)
eart or hope; in an age of ignorance, the friend of education; in an age of servility and vice, the pure and uncontaminated friend of freedom, tuning his harp to those magnificent melodies which angels might stoop to hear, and confessing his supreme duties to humanity in words of simplicity and power. I am long since persuaded, was his declaration, that to say or do aught worth memory and imitation, no purpose or respect should sooner move us than love of God and mankind. There is St. Vincent de Paul of France, once in captivity in Algiers. Obtaining his freedom by a happy escape, this fugitive slave devoted himself with divine success to labors of Christian benevolence, to the establishment of hospitals, to visiting those in prison, to the spread of amity and peace. Unknown, he repaired to the galleys at Marseilles, and, touched by the story of a poor convict, personally assumed his heavy chains, that he might be excused to visit his wife and children. And, when France was bleed
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Section Fifth: Senatorial career. (search)
es, the great Spaniard, while a slave in Algiers, to regain the liberty for which he says, in his immortal work, we ought to risk life itself, Slavery being the greatest evil that can fall to the lot of man. Science, in all her manifold triumphs, throbs with pride and delight, that Arago, the astronomer and philosopher—devoted republican also—was redeemed from barbarous Slavery to become one of her greatest sons. Religion rejoices serenely, with joy unspeakable, in the final escape of Vincent de Paul. Exposed in the public squares of Tunis to the inspection of the traffickers in human flesh, this illustrious Frenchman was subjected to every vileness of treatment, compelled, like a horse, to open his mouth, to show his teeth, to trot, to run, to exhibit his strength in lifting burdens, and then, like a horse, legally sold in market overt. Passing from master to master, after a protracted servitude, he achieved his freedom, and regaining France, commenced that resplendent career of
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Xix. (search)
es, the great Spaniard, while a slave in Algiers, to regain the liberty for which he says, in his immortal work, we ought to risk life itself, Slavery being the greatest evil that can fall to the lot of man. Science, in all her manifold triumphs, throbs with pride and delight, that Arago, the astronomer and philosopher—devoted republican also—was redeemed from barbarous Slavery to become one of her greatest sons. Religion rejoices serenely, with joy unspeakable, in the final escape of Vincent de Paul. Exposed in the public squares of Tunis to the inspection of the traffickers in human flesh, this illustrious Frenchman was subjected to every vileness of treatment, compelled, like a horse, to open his mouth, to show his teeth, to trot, to run, to exhibit his strength in lifting burdens, and then, like a horse, legally sold in market overt. Passing from master to master, after a protracted servitude, he achieved his freedom, and regaining France, commenced that resplendent career of
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), The Catholics and their churches. (search)
c Union was founded in 1894; its purpose is literary and social, and to improve the Catholic people of Cambridge. It has a membership of two hundred and fourteen, and during the winter lectures on Catholic subjects are given, and they are open to the public. Edmund Reardon is president, and William M. Wadden recording secretary. Temperance and charitable societies. Each of the several Catholic parishes in Cambridge has a temperance society, and also a branch of the society of Saint Vincent de Paul for the relief of the poor, and all these are quietly and assiduously doing good work. The temperance society in East Cambridge was founded by Father Matthew himself in December, 1849, upon his visit to this country, and is named after that great apostle of temperance. It is the oldest and largest in the archdiocese, one of the oldest Catholic total abstinence societies in the United States, and has been the example and mainstay of the temperance cause among the Catholics in Massac
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 30: addresses before colleges and lyceums.—active interest in reforms.—friendships.—personal life.—1845-1850. (search)
ded, attentive audience, and a very charming discourse. He [Sumner] passed the night with us; and Felton came up. In tone and sentiment it followed fitly his Fourth of July oration. It assails the common judgment of mankind which awards the highest fame to success in war, questions the love of applause as a motive of conduct except as directed by sentiments of justice and benevolence, and holds up before ingenuous youth as exemplars of true glory such benefactors of mankind as Milton, Vincent de Paul, Howard, and Clarkson. The address abounds in literary and historical allusions. In stating the compensations of a life, with duty as its guide and aim, he may possibly have referred to some experiences of his own. the world with ignorant or intolerant judgment may condemn, the countenance of companion may be averted, the heart of friend may grow cold; but the consciousness of duty done will be sweeter than the applause of the world, than the countenance of companion or the heart of
Cambridge sketches (ed. Estelle M. H. Merrill), The Charities of Cambridge. (search)
ston Citizens' Rescue League, not especially intended to help Cambridge-deserve such description as their titles may give, though it is beyond the scope of this article to treat of them more fully. There are a number of societies for giving temporary material relief, of which it would be difficult and unnecessary to give a complete list here. Such are the Male Humane and the Female Humane Societies, the Howard Benevolent, the North Cambridge Charitable Association, the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul, and the benefit associations connected with business houses or with corporations of various kinds. Most of these cooperate with the Associated Charities and resemble one another in plan and scope, having been called into being at different times to meet the needs of certain districts or certain classes of dwellers in our city. The Female Humane Society differs from the others in giving relief ostensibly in payment for work done. Women who can sew are allowed to carry to their h
The Daily Dispatch: December 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], Additional foreign news by the Etna. (search)
Sir DeLacy Evans, in a letter to his constituents, under the title of illegal and demoralizing haste in army commissions, complains that the repeated promises of the Government to arrange a plan for appointing the commanders, of regiments by election instead of purchase, remains unfulfilled. On her voyage from Queenstown to Plymouth, the frigate Warrior went nine and a half knots an hour, under topsail and foresails. It is said that the Central Committee, of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul is definitely dissolving in France. Accounts from Venezuela to the 22d of October, in London, are satisfactory as regards the progress of the pacification of the country under Gen. P z. According to accounts from the Republic of Ecuador, the President of Peru had addressed an overbearing intimation to the Government, threatening them with a new blockade of the port of Guayaquil unless they will consent to the cessation of one half of their territory.--Peru rejects every offer of co
The Daily Dispatch: March 17, 1862., [Electronic resource], Affairs in Europe. (search)
in the Crimea and in Italy would have been better applied towards a descent upon England. M. Billault regretted the remarks of M de Boissy. Language of that description between two great nations, equally proud, equally sensitive upon the point of honor, was a misfortune. He thought it useless to revive French animosity towards England, when the policy of the Emperor tended, on the contrary, to appease such feelings. M. M. Shayer and Charles Dupin spoke in favor of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. The debate was adjourned. On the 25th the discussion was continued. Prince Napoleon protested against the expressions used by M. de Boissy. He said:--"In the Senate the standard of the younger branch has been raised in opposition to that of the older branch. I protested last year against similar insinuations. I now repeat that I wish to defend the constitutional and liberl empire. That empire can endure liberty, but liberty must take its course in the order established by ou
The Daily Dispatch: February 17, 1865., [Electronic resource], Madame Naraschine, (search)
Madame Naraschine, the wife of young Dumas, who has been alternately dubbed Countess and Princess, does not sport a title at all, but she is universally admitted to be one of the most thoroughly grandes dames in all Europe, and she is connected by her first husband with the Emperor of Russia. Her manners, her wit, her learning, her high social position, and her auburn hair, of that precise shade which dyers most try to imitate, are the theme of ecstatic articles in the Jockey Club journals. Her sister in-law, of Swedish origin, a nun of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, is one of the most fashionable holy women in the noble Faubourg of St. Germane.