St. Vincent de Paul lived a life of challenges and service. He was born into a poor peasant family 1581 in Pouy, France. He studied humanities and theology in Toulouse, France.
Years later, by chance, he was taken captive by Turkish pirates and sold into slavery in North Africa. Despite this terrible ordeal, he managed to convert his master to Christianity and was freed.
He served as a chaplin and a parish priest, but it was his work with the poor and prisoners for which he is mostly noted in history.
Among his other accomplishments was the founding of the Daughters of Charity.
He died in 1660 and was canonized in 1737.
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