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Daughters of Charity & Saints and Blesseds & Uncategorized & Vincentian Family & heritage & liturgy admin | 20 Jun 2011

Beatification of Sr. Marguerite Rutan, D.C. - June 19, 2011

Holy Trinity Sunday, June 19, 2011 was a great feast in the city of Dax in is South Western France. A martyr of French Revolution, first Superioress and Director of the city hospital, Sister Marguerite Rutan, Daughter of Charity guillotined on April 7, 1794 was beatified. The solemn ceremony begun minutes after 3:00 PM (1300GMT) [...]

Congregation of the Mission & Province of Poland & Saints and Blesseds & history admin | 09 Sep 2009

Polish Vincentians - Servants of God - first victims of WWII

On September 9, 1939, the 9th day since III Reich invasion on Poland, Province of Poland of the Congregation of the Mission suffered first sacrifices. In Bydgoszcz, in a round-up organized as part of repressions after so called “bloody Sunday” two confreres from Vincentian House in the parish of St. Vincent de Paul in Bydgoszcz [...]

Daughters of Charity & Saints and Blesseds & history admin | 24 May 2009

First anniversary of beatification of Sr. Marta Anna Wiecka DC

On Saturday, May 24, 2008, in Lviv, Ukraine, Sr. Marta Anna WIECKA DC, from Province of Krakow of Daughters of Charity was beatified during special celebration. To celebrate the first anniversary Daughters of Charity prepared an all night vigil service at Jasna Góra Shrine in Czestochowa.  An Eucharist celebrated by Msgr Mieczysław Mokrzycki, Latin Metropolitan [...]