Historic events

25 March in History

1634: In Paris. Louise de Marillac, authorized by Monsieur Vincent, renovates her vow of widowhood.

1642: As a souvenir of Mother Louise consecration of her life into service of Lord Of Charity chosen by Daughters of Charity for the Solemnity of Annunciation to celebrate renovation of their vows, during the Mass for the day, Mother Louise, sr Barbara Angeboust and three other Sisters take their perpetual vows to give their whole life to service of poor.

1644: During the Mass on the Solemnity of Annunciation, in the church of St. Nicholas de Chardonnet, Louise de Marillac. sr Barbara Angeboust and three more sisters renew their vows, taken two years before, of living the whole life in chastity, obedience, poverty and service of the poor.

1657: In Paris, brother John Jourdain dies. He was the first brother coadjutor in the Congregation of the Mission which he entered on February 13, 1627. Earlier he was equerry master and master of the house of marquise de Maignelay.

1805: Elizabeth Ann Seton receives her First Communion at St. Peter's Church, Barclay Street, New York City.

1808: Elizabeth Ann Seton makes vows for one year and given title of "Mother" by John Carroll, bishop of Baltimore.

1813: A decree demands City of Paris to purchase the l'Hôtel de Châtillon (at rue de Bac, presently Motherhouse) and install Daughters of Charity there as they were installed in the residence at rue du Vieux-Colombier until the Revolution.

1824: In the age of 35,Joseph Rosati,CM is consecrated coadjutor bishop of New Orleans by Msgr Louis Dubourg, bishop of Florida and Louisiana in Donaldsonville, Louisiana.

1850: Union of the Sisters of Charity of Saint Joseph's founded by Elizabeth Ann Seton in Emmitsburg,MD in 1809 and the Congregation of Daughters of Charityof St. Louise and St. Vincent.

1852: Group of sisters from community of Sisters of Charity pof St.Joseph, persuaded and assisted by archbishop of Cincinnati msgr John Purcell, establish an independent religious diocesan community of Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati. These sisters didn't want to accept union of their Emmitsburg based community with 'French' Daughters of Charity. They wanted to preserve American character and heritage of their community. In 1920s they transferred to papal rights company by introducing new Constitutions and changing traditional Setonian style dress to modern one. Presently, about 500 sisters and 150 lay associates (women and men) work in 34 US dioceses and in Guatemala.

1911: 659 Sisters of Charity of Nazareth (SCN) make perpetual vows for the first time. The community was established in 1812 by nineteen year old Catherine Spaldiong and her two associates. They responded to bishop's David of Bardstwon, Kentucky call for assistance in ministering to the needs of the people of the area. The community follows the rule of St. Vincent de Paul. Presently SCN sisters serve in 20 states in the U.S.A., in India, Nepal and Belize, Central America.

1937: By the decree of Congregation for Eastern Churches signed by cardinal Eugene Gabriel Tisserant Prefecture Apostolic of Tigré on Abyssinian territories (Presently Ethiopia and Eritrea) is erected and confined to Italian Vincentians. Prefect's residence was established in Adigrat.

Other Dates

January

• 1 - Feast of Mary, Mother of God, New Year's Day
• 4 - Feast of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton - Litany - Google Search - Prayer Service
• 25 - Foundation of the Congregation of the Mission - Google Search
• 28 - Mary gave Green Scapular to Sr. Justine Bisqueyburu, DC1840

February

• 1 - Feast of the Martyrs of Angers
• 2 - First vow date in Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, KY (SCN) - 1816
• 3 - Beatification of Giuseppina Nicoli, DC - 2008
• 7 - Feast of Blessed Rosalie Rendu, D.C., Sep 9,1786 - Feb 7,1856
• 10 - St. Louise de Marillac declared Patroness of Social Workers - 1960 Feb. 10
• 17 - Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, Halifax approved by Pope Pius IX -1856
• 18 - St.Francis Regis Clet(biography) 1748-1820
• 25 - Ash Wednesday (A.D.2009)

March

• 3 - Peter Rene Rogue CM guillotined in France
• 6 - Jean-Marie Odin, CM consecrated bishop in New Orleans- 1842
• 11 - Canonization of St. Louise de Marillac - 1934
• 14 - Elizabeth Ann Seton makes profession of faith and is formally received into the Catholic Church at St. Peter Church, New York City 1805
• 15 - Solemnity of St. Louise de Marillac, - +1660
• 18 - Bl. Rosalie Rendu presented with Legion of Honor Medal by Napoleon III for her service to the poor.
• 18 - John Joseph Lynch CM appointed first archbishop of Toronto - 1879
• 20 - Death of Mother Catherine Spaling SCN - 1858
• 25 - Feast of the Annunciation
• 25 - Annual Renovation of Vows for the Daughters of Charity (to commemorate Louise and 4 companions taking perpetual vows in 1642 and renewed 1644)
• 25 - Elizabeth Ann Seton receives her First Communion at St. Peter's Church, Barclay Street, New York City - 1805
• 25 - Elizabeth Ann Seton makes vows for one year and given title of "Mother" by John Carroll, bishop of Baltimore - 1808
• 25 - Joseph Rosati, CM consecrated coadjutor bishop of New Orleans and then first bishop of St. Louis - 1824
• 25 - Union of the Sisters of Charity of Saint Joseph's (Emmitsburg) and the Daughters of Charity of St. Louise and St. Vincent - 1850
• 25 - Establishment of the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati - 1852
• 25 - 659 Sisters of Charity of Nazareth make perpetual vows for the first time - 1911
• 26 - "Populorum Progressio" Paul VI- 1967
• 27 - Sister Agostina Pietrantoni (1864-1894),a member of the Sisters of St. Joan Antida and a patron of Abuse Victims http://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/saints/ns_lit_doc_19990418_pietrantoni_en.html Agostina Pietrantoni]. ([http://www.scsja.org/)
• 28 - Death of Mother Suzanne Guillemin, D.C., superioress general and former auditor at Vatican II -1968

April

• 11 - "Pacem in Terris" John XXIII- 1963
• 16 - St. Vincent de Paul proclaimed "Universal Patron of Works of Charity" by the pontifical brief "Cum Multa" of Pope Leo XIII on May 12, 1885.
• 16 - Bishop John Timon, CM, first bishop of Buffalo, New York dies. Timon had been first provincial of the Congregation of the Mission in the United States.
• 17 - The foundation date of the first establishment of the Congregation of the Mission, Bons Enfants, Paris
• 21-22 - Celebration of 25 years of the Vincentian Studies Institute
• 23 - Bl. Frederic Ozanam's birthday - 1813
• 23 - Foundation of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul - 1833
• 23 - St. Joan Antida Thouret - +1826
• 24 - Birthday of St. Vincent de Paul - 1581
• 25 - Beatification of Sr. Némésia Valle (Sisters of St. Joan Antida)
• 25 - Memorial of the Translation of the Relics of St. Vincent - 1830

May

• 1 - "Centesimus Annus" John Paul II - 1991
• 2 - Birthday of St. Catherine Labouré - 1806 (Pronounces vows for the first time 1835)
• 2 - Vincent de Paul is installed as Cure of Clichy, France 1612
• 4 - Jean-Marie Odin, CM ordained at St. Mary's in Perryville, MO 1823; will become the first Bishop of Galveston, Texas in 1848 and second Archbishop of New Orleans in 1861
• 5 - "Challenge of Peace" US Bishop's - 1983
• 11 - First Sisters of Charity of New York arrive in Halifax, Nova Scotia - 1849
• 12 - Bishop Thaddeus Amat, CM second Bishop of Montery, CA, (presently Archdiocese of Los Angeles) dies in Los Angeles 1878
• 12 - John Joseph Lynch, CM the first Archbishop of Toronto, Canada dies 1888
• 15 - "Rerum Novarum" Leo XIII - 1891
• 15 - "Quadregesimo Anno" Pius XI - 1931
• 15 - "Octogesima Adveniens" Paul VI - 1971
• 16 - St. Gianna Beretta Molla, canonized on May 16th, 2004
• 17 - St. Vincent de Paul gives the community a copy of the Constitutions and Rules of the Congregation of the Mission 1658
• 20 - Pier Giorgio Frassati, a member of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, beatified 1990
• 21 - Vincent de Paul sends first missionaries to Madagascar 1648
• 24 - Leo Raymond de Neckère, CM, is consecrated bishop at St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans 1830
• 25 - Blessed Rosalie Rendu enters the Daughters of Charity in Paris 1802
• 27 - St. Francis Regis Clet, CM beatified by Pope Leo XIII 1900
• 28 - Catherine Labouré beatified by Pope Pius XI 1933
• 30 - Feast of St. Monica, Louise de Marillac makes a vow of widowhood -1623

June

• 2 - Pope John Paul II canonizes John Gabriel Perboyre, C.M., first missionary to China to be canonized - 1996
• 3 - Pope Pius X establishes the Association of the Miraculous Medal - 1905
• 3 - Association of the Miraculous Medal Established - 1918
• 4 - St. Louise received "Light" of Pentecost
• 13 - Pope Benedict XV beatifies the Martyrs of Arras, four Daughters of Charity. The martyrdom took place on June 26, 1794, at Cambrai, France
• 16 - Pope Clement XII canonizes St. Vincent de Paul - 1737
• 19 - "Sharing Catholic Social Teaching" U.S. Bishop's 1998
• 20 - By way of trial, in various houses, and a rescript of 1847, Superior General, Fr. Jean-Baptiste Étienne was empowered to erect in each house of the Daughters of Charity a pious confraternity, dedicated to Mary Immaculate, made up of young girls attending their schools or work-rooms which started the Children of Mary Association
• 23 - Frederic Ozanam and Amélie Soulacroix marry 1841
• 30 - First 2000 Miraculous Medals are delivered to Father Jean-Marie Aladel, C.M., 1832

July

• 4 - USA Independence Day, July 4.
• 4 - Feast of Blessed Pier-Giorgio Frassati, Member of the SSVDP
• 6 - Baptism of Marguerite Naseau, considered the first Daughter of Charity by Vincent de Paul --1594
• 16 - First Sisters of St. Martha arrived in Antigonish. 1900
• 18-19 - First Apparition to St. Catherine Laboure 1830
• 19 Vows pronouced for the first time by Elizabeth Ann Seton and 17 other Sisters of Charity of St. Joseph's who adapted the vow formula of the Daughters of Charity. -1813
• 26 - Felix de Andreis, C.M.*, Joseph Rosati, C.M., and companions arrive in Baltimore, MD -1816
• 29 - Feast of St. Martha
• 30 - Feast of St. Justin de Jacobis, CM - 1860
• 31 - Foundation by Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton of the Sisters of Charity of Saint Joseph's at Emmitsburg, MD, the first native community of religious women founded in the United States - 1809

August

• 2 Feast of Bl. Ceferino Gimenez Malla, a gypsy from Spain, member of SSVDP
• 4 - The National Shrine of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, Emmitsburg, MD, USA, becomes a basilica - 1991
• 12 - Birth of St. Louise de Marillac - 1591
• 15 - Feast of the Assumption of Mary
• 22 - Foundation of the First Confraternity of Charity at Chatillon-les-Dombes - 1617
• 26 - Death of St. Joan Antida Thouret 1826
• 28 - Birth of Elizabeth Ann Bayley, the future St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, in New York - 1774
• 31 - Feast of Bl. Ghebre Michael, CM - 1855

September

• 2 - Bl. Louis-Joseph François, Jean-Henri Gruyer and Pierre-René Rogue, Priests and Martyrs,
• 7 - Frank Duff founds the Legion of Mary -1921
• 8 - Death of Frederic Ozanam - 1853
• 9 - Feast of Blessed Frederic Ozanam,
• 9 - Birth of Sr. Rosalie Rendu, DC - 1786
• 10 - St. John Gabriel Perboyre, C.M.Priest and Martyr - +1840
• 11 - Founding of St. Elizabeth College, [Convent Station] NJ - 1899
• 14 - Elizabeth Ann Seton, first native-born saint of the United States, is canonized by Pope Paul VI. - 1975
• 23 - Vincent de Paul Ordained a priest - 1600
• 27 - Feast of St. Vincent de Paul who died on this date - +1660

October

• 1 - Anniversary of the canonization of St. Francis Regis Clet - 2000 CM
• World Food Day
• World Mission Sunday
• 17 - Anniversary of Louise de Marillac's consecration of the Little Company to Blessed Mother at Chartres, 1644
• 17 - International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
• 26 - Justin de Jacobis, C.M., Apostle of Ethiopia, is canonized a saint by Pope Paul VI - 1975
• 27 Establishment of the Federation of the Sisters of Charity in the Vincentian and Setonian Traditon - 1947
• 31 - Ghebre Michael, C.M., coworker in Ethiopia with St. Justin de Jacobis, is beatified by Pope Pius XI - 1926

November

• USA Election Day - "Faithful Citizenship" U.S. Bishops
• 9 - Anniversary of the Beatification of Rosalie Rendu, D.C. - 2003
• 11 - First Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth arrive at the Leavenworth Landing - 1858
• 18 - "Economic Justice for All" U.S. Bishops - 1986
• 13 - Martyrdom of St. Agostina Pietrantoni, a Sister of Charity of Jeanne-Antide - 1894
• 23 - Thomas Judge, C.M. - +1933
• 27 - Feast of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal - Rue du Bac
• 27 - Birth of St. Joan Antida Thouret 1765
• 28 - Feast of St. Catherine Labouré
• 29 - Foundation of the Company of the Daughters of Charity, 1633
• USA Thanksgiving

December

• 7 - "Gaudium et Spes" Vatican II - 1965
• 8 - Feast of the Immaculate Conception
• 8 - "Evangelii Nuntiandi" Paul VI - 1975
• 8 - First association of the Confraternity of Charity was canonically erected - 1617
• 8 - First group of the Ladies of Charity in the United States begins at St. Vincent's Church in St. Louis - 1857
• 8 - Society of St. Vincent de Paul chooses the feast of the Immaculate Conception as one of its four feast days - 1834
• 8 - Some congregations of the Sisters of Charity Federation renew their vows
• 10 - Blessed Marcantonio Durando, CM - +1880
• 12 - Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe
• 19 - Pope John XXIII declares Elizabeth Ann Seton Venerable - 1959
• 25 - Christmas
• 30 - "Sollicitudo Rei Socialis]"] John Paul II - 1987
• 31 - Death of Catherine Labouré, D.C. - 1876