VincentWiki:Ephemerides/26 April
1643: Conference of Vincent de Paul for Daughters of Charity "on the danger of disunity, as a subject of great importance since it looks nothing less than the continuation or complete dissolution of your Company." The conference has three parts: first, the reasons for wanting that there is never disunity in the Company; second, what would I do if there is any disunity, or particularly large; third, which eventually left for another day, about the means to prevent disunity.
1658: Conference of Vincent de Paul in Saint Lazare on the spiritual resurrection, its reasons and meaning.
1830: In Paris, while Catherine Labouré was coming on pilgrimage with the other sisters to the chapel at rue de Sevres every day of the novena following the translation of the relics of St. Vincent de Paul, it appeared, that she has seen, every day, the heart of St. Vincent over the small shrine that is located above the altar that was later dedicated to St Joseph.
1899: In Paris, died in the age of 74, after few days lasting flu infection Fr Julius Chevalier, Assistant General of the Congregation of the Mission and Director of Daughters of Charity. He was born in the diocese od Sens. Enterd Congregation in 1845 and ordained priest in 1848. Then, he was sent to seminary in Albi. Archbishop Jean Maria Eugenio de Jerphanion asked him to participate in the administration of his diocese. He wrote pastoral letters, drew up diocesan statutes, established various works, founded Carmel de Castres, recruited monks to the abbey of Calcat. In 1866 he became Director of major seminary in Amiens restoring the building, improving the regime and restoring discipline. In 1874, Fr Eugene Bora, newly elected by the XXIII General assembly Superior General of the Congregation, selects Fr Chevalier to be his First Assistant and entrusts him the direction of the Company of the Daughters of Charity. Among the works he wrote were: "Manual of the Ladies of Charity," an overview on "miraculous medal", drafted after the confidences that made him Sister Catherine Labouré, and, especially, two thick volumes of "Instructions to the Daughters of Charity."
2008: Gdansk, Poland. In the cathedral in Gdansk-Oliwa there is an ingress of new bishop metroplitan of Gdansk. Archbishop Tadeusz Goc?owski CM who headed the diocese since December 31, 1984, as fith bishop in line, retired from the office on April 17, 2008. In fact he handed his resignation to pope Benedict XVI in September 2006 after achieving canonical retirement age. But The pope asked him to stay in the office until 25th anniversary of his bishop ordinations what happened on April 17.
