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MARY ANN VINCENT (1818-1887)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 92 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARY See also:ANN See also:VINCENT (1818-1887)  , See also:American actress, was See also:born in See also:Portsmouth, See also:England, on the 18th of See also:September 1818, the daughter of an Irishman named Farlin . See also:Left an See also:orphan at an See also:early See also:age, she turned to the See also:stage, making her first See also:appearance in 1834 as See also:Lucy in The See also:Review, at See also:Cowes, Isle of See also:Wight . The next See also:year she married J . R . See also:Vincent (d . 185o), an actor, with whom she toured England and See also:Ireland for several years . In 1846 Mrs J . R . Vincent went to See also:America to join the stock See also:company of the old See also:National See also:theatre in See also:Boston . Here she became a See also:great favourite . No actress in America, except Mrs See also:Gilbert, has ever been such " a dear old See also:lady " to so wide a circle of See also:constant admirers . She died in Boston on the 4th of September 1887 .

Her memory is honoured by the Vincent Memorial See also:

Hospital, founded in that See also:city in 1890 by popular subscription, and formally opened on the 6th of See also:April 1891, by See also:Bishop See also:Phillips See also:Brooks, as a hospital for wage-earning See also:women and girls . VINCENT DE See also:PAUL, ST (1576-1660), See also:French divine, founder of the " See also:Congregation of Priests of the See also:Mission," usually known as See also:Lazarites (q.v.), was born on the 24th of April 1576 at Pouy, near Dax, in Gascogne, and was educated by the See also:Franciscans at Dax and at See also:Toulouse . He was ordained See also:priest in 1600 . Voyaging from Toulouse to See also:Narbonne, he was captured by See also:Barbary pirates, who took him to See also:Tunis and sold him as a slave . He converted his third See also:master, a renegade See also:Italian, and escaped with him to Aigues-Mortes near See also:Marseilles in See also:June 1607 . After See also:short stays at See also:Avignon and See also:Rome, Vincent found his way to See also:Paris, where he became favourably known to See also:Monsieur (after-. wards See also:Cardinal) de Berulle, who was then See also:founding the congregation of the French See also:Oratory . At Berulle's instance he became See also:curate of See also:Clichy near Paris (1611); but this See also:charge he soon exchanged for the See also:post of See also:tutor to the See also:count of See also:Joigny at Folleville, in the See also:diocese of See also:Amiens, where his success in dealing with the spiritual needs of the peasants led to the " See also:missions " with which his name is associated . In 1617 he accepted the curacy of See also:Chatillon-See also:les-See also:Dombes (or sur-Chalaronne), and here he received from the countess of Joigny the means by which he was enabled to found his first "confrerie de See also:diorite," an association of women who ministered to the poor and the sick . In 1619 See also:Louis XIII. made him royal See also:almoner of the galleys . Among the See also:works of benevolence with' which his name is associated are the See also:establishment of a hospital for See also:galley slaves at Marseilles, the irstitution of two establishments for foundlings at Paris, and the organization of the " Filles de la Charite," to supplement the See also:work of the confr€Ties, whose members were mainly married women with domestic duties . He died at Paris on the 27th of September 166o, and was buried in the 'See also:church of St Lazare . He was beatified by See also:Benedict XIII. in 1729, and canonized by See also:Clement XII. in 1737, his festival (duplex) being observed on the 19th of See also:July .

The Society of St Vincent de Paul was founded by See also:

Frederic See also:Ozanam' and others in 1833, in reply to a charge brought by some See also:free-thinking contemporaries that the church no longer had the strength to inaugurate a See also:practical enterprise . In a variety of ways it does a great See also:deal of social service similar to that of See also:gilds of help . Its See also:administration has always been in the hands of laymen, and it works through See also:local "conferences" or branches, the See also:general See also:council having been suspended because it declined to accept a cardinal as its See also:official See also:head . Lives by See also:Maynard (4 vols., Paris, 186o) ; Bougaud (2 vols., Paris, 1891) ; E. de See also:Broglie (5th edition, Paris, 1899) ; Letters (2 vols., Paris, 1882) ; A . Loth (Paris, 188o) ; H . Simard (See also:Lyons, 1894) .

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