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This podcast is produced by the Augustine Institute, an Apostolate helping Catholics understand, live, and share their faith.

Hello, welcome to Catholic Saints. My name is Mary McGeehan, and I am joined with Dr. Chris Bloom,

the provost of the graduate school here at the Augustine Institute. Thank you for joining.

Oh, Mary, great to be here, great to be with all of our foreign viewers. Thank you.

Thank you. Pleasure to have you. And the episode today is on the

life of St. Vincent de Paul. So the series Catholic Saints is to learn a little bit about their life,

biographical sketch, legacy that they love to the church, to really look to them as sources of

inspiration for our own lives today and the Catholic pilgrimage that we are walking.

So to begin, St. Vincent DePaul, can you give a brief biographical sketch?

Sure.

Where is he from? When did he live? Do we know anything about his family? To start.

Yeah. So born about 1580, plus or minus a year or two, died in 1660.

Okay.

He was from southwestern France, so for the marshy plains south of the city of Bordeaux.

Okay.

So territory for shepherds, and he came from a shepherd's family.

It's not clear how poor he was exactly but certainly not a not a wealthy family and as a young man he seems to have been

bitten with a certain amount of ambition so he he was very charming and he somehow managed to have his first

benefits in the church. We'll come back to that word and talk about that a little bit. By the time

he was 18, he was ordained a priest before his 20th birthday. Oh, that is young. Yeah. And then he was a bit

of a careerist for the next decade. So it's a very curious story, the decade of his 20s.

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