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2 unusual facts about Vincentian


Human trafficking in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Reporting suggests that Vincentian children may participate in commercial sexual exploitation to supplement their families’ income.

Peter J. Tobin

After graduating from St. John’s University in 1965, Tobin brought the school’s Vincentian values to the corporate world.


Bulan, Sorsogon

of the Congregation of the Mission, now Representative of the Superior General of the CM to the Vincentian Family (the Congregation of the Mission is a Roman Catholic community of Priests and Brothers founded by St. Vincent de Paul)

De Paul College, Eluru

The college derives its title and inspiration from St. Vincent de Paul, the patron saint of the Vincentian Congregation, a missionary religious community which manages the college.

Elizabeth Ann Seton

In addition to the original community of Sisters at Emmitsburg (now part of the Vincentian order), they are based in New York City, Cincinnati, Ohio, Halifax Regional Municipality, Convent Station, New Jersey, and Greensburg, Pennsylvania.

Joseph Rosati

Rosati then moved to Perryville, Missouri, where he opened St. Mary of the Barrens Seminary in 1818, to educate the young men of the region and to train new members for the Vincentian Society.

Kenrick–Glennon Seminary

In the fall of 1858, the Second Provincial Council of Saint Louis made a new determination for the Seminary and by way of experiment, another Vincentian institute, Saint Vincent College, in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, served as a regional seminary with the entire Archdiocesan Seminary thus transferred there, the Major Seminary moving from Carondelet, the Minor Seminary from Perryville.

Myron Samuel

He is the cousin of fellow Vincentian international footballer, Shandel Samuel.

Sisters of Divine Charity

The Sisters of Divine Charity were founded at Besançon, in 1799, by a Vincentian Sister, and modelled on the Sisters of Mercy of St. Vincent de Paul.


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