September 6, 2013 · 6:00 am

Frederic Ozanam, part 1

Frederic Ozanam

Blessed Frederic Ozanam

Throughout 2013 the Vincentian Family has been celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Blessed Frederic Ozanam, lawyer, scholar, and founder of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul whose feast day falls on September 9. Below is a short list of resources in the Provincial Archives’ collections for the study of Frederic Ozanam and the Vincent de Paul Society. Our next post will touch on the life of Frederic Ozanam.

Manuscript Collections: Record Group 20-2, Records of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul.

Library collection

  • American Manual of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. Green Bay, WI: Alt Publishing Co. 1980
  • Thomas E. Auge, Frederic Ozanam and His World. Milwaukee, WI: The Bruce Publishing Company, 1966
  • Rev. Baunard, Monsignor Ozanam in his Correspondence. New York: Benziger Brothers.
  • Rene Berthier, Frederic Ozanam. Paris: Editions Univers Media
  • Rene Berthier, Lettres de Frederic Ozanam: Lettres de Jeunesse 1819-1840. Paris: Editions Klincksieck, 1992
  • Rene Berthier, Lettres de Frederic Ozanam: Premieres Annees A La Sorbonne, 1841-1844. Paris: CELSE, 1971
  • Rene Berthier, Lettres de Frederic Ozanam: L’Engagement 1845-1849. Paris: CELSE, 1978
  • Rene Berthier, Lettres de Frederic Ozanam: Les Dernieres Annees 1850-1853. Paris: Editions Klincksieck, 1992
  • Rene Berthier, Lettres de Frederic Ozanam: Supplement et Tables. Paris: Editions Klincksieck, 1997
  • V.M. Crawford, Frederic Ozanam: Catholic and Democrat. Oxford: Catholic Social Guild, 1947
  • James Patrick Derum, Apostle in a Top Hat. New York: All Saints Press, Inc.1962
  • James Patrick Derum, Apostle in a Top Hat: The Life of Frederic Ozanam.Garden City, NY: Hanover House 1960
  • Archibald J. Dunn, Frederic Ozanam and the Establishment of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. London: R&T Washbourne Ltd., 1913
  • Eric Francis, Paris 1833: Frederick Ozanam. Bombay: Frank Silveira, National Council of India, 1979
  • First 100 Years. Baltimore, MD: Particular Council, St. Vincent de Paul Society, 1965
  • Frederic Ozanam: A Life in Letters, tr. Joseph I. Dirvin, C.M. St. Louis, MO: Society of Vincent de Paul, Council of the United States, 1986
  • Sister Vera Gallagher, Hearing the Cry of the Poor: The Story of the St. Vincent de Paul Society. Ligouri, MO: Ligouri Pubications, 1983
  • Mary Ann Garvey Hess, Frederic Ozanam. Society of St. Vincent de Paul, 1974
  • Rev. Henry Louis Hughes, Frederick Ozanam. St. Louis, MO: B. Herder Book Company, 1933
  • H.D. Lacordaire, My Friend Ozanam. Sydney: Society of St. Vincent de Paul, 1957
  • Manual of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. Dublin, Ireland: Society of St. Vincent de Paul, 1942
  • Manual of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. Dublin, Ireland: Society of St. Vincent de Paul, 1958
  • Rev. Daniel T. McColgan, A Century of Charity: The First One Hundred Years of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul in the United States. Milwaukee, WI: The Bruce Publishing Company, 1951
  • Jack M. Melito, C.M., Society of St. Vincent de Paul: 150 Years of Service in the United States. St. Louis, MO: Society of St. Vincent de Paul, 1995
  • Rule of the International Confederation of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. St. Louis, MO: National Council of the United States, 2006
  • Shaun McCarty, Frederic Ozanam, 1813-1853. Society of St. Vincent de Paul.
  • Memorial of the Beatification of Frederic Ozanam, [1997]
  • Rev. Edward O’Connor, The Secret of Frederick Ozanam: Founder of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul.. Dublin, Ireland: Society of St. Vincent de Paul, 1961
  • Frank O’Brien and Heber Boland, Ozanam Still Speaks to the World Today. Society of Saint Vincent de Paul, 1980.
  • James Parry, Ozanam. Montreal: Editions Bellarmin, 1989
  • Pierre Pierrard, Ozanam: Husband and Father, Champion of Truth and Justice, Lover of the Poor, Founder of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. Cedex Editions du Signe, 1997
  • Ronald Ramson, Praying with Frederic Ozanam. Winona, MN: Christian Brothers Publications, 1998
  • Albert Paul Schimberg, The Great Friend: Frederick Ozanam, Milwaukee, WI: The Bruce Publishing Company, 1946
  • United States Manual of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. St. Louis, MO: Council of the United States, 1995

Articles about Frederic Ozanam in Vincentian Heritage Journal (print copies are available at the Provincial Archives; copies are also available online through Via Sapientiae)

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September 5, 2013 · 1:40 pm

American DCs in Canada

The Daughters of Charity’s work as nurses in the Civil War is a well-known and much-beloved part of the Community’s history. What sometimes gets overlooked, however, is the fact that throughout the years of the Civil War the Sisters continued working at established missions and even established new works.

One of the works established during the Civil War years was the American Province’s first mission in Canada. In 1861 Bishop John J. Lynch, C.M. received permission from Sr. Elizabeth Montcellet, Superioress General of the Daughters of Charity, to request Sisters for a new mission in Toronto. In 1862 three Sisters – Sisters Mary Joseph Murphy, Barbara Claris, and Simeon Quinn — traveled to Toronto to establish St. Vincent’s Select School. By May of 1862 eight Sisters were serving at the school, which occupied at large frame building on the grounds of St. Mary’s Church. The school became known as St. Mary’s Academy Industrial School for Girls; it was a free school with an enrollment of approximately 200 pupils.

In 1868 the Sisters withdrew from the mission in Toronto, and the Community currently has no missions there. In 1998 Daughters of Charity located in the Province of Quebec affiliated with the former Albany Province. Today the Sisters in Montreal are part of the Province of St. Louise.

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September 3, 2013 · 11:50 am

World War I materials included on new research site

The Provincial Archives is proud to share with you the fruits of our participation in a new research initiative, a consortium of various institutions that document the history of women religious. We’re especially pleased because this introduces to the scholarly community the Daughters beyond what is widely known — their service as nurses during the Civil War. These World War I images came from the collection of glass negatives from St. Louis that documents the history of the Loyola Unit, a group of sisters stationed with miles of the front in Vicenza, Italy in 1917.

Here is the link to “our” page.

If you click on each photograph, you’ll get a larger image. If you look closely at the photograph of the unit landing, you’ll see the “cornettes” on deck to the very right.

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