VincentWiki:Ephemerides/4 May

1629: Louise de Marillac takes a vow of widowhood which she renewed each year, and her "resolutions to practice the holy virtues of humility, obedience, poverty, suffering and charity to honor the same virtues in Jesus Christ, also pledging not to offend God never again in any part of my being and entirely abandon the design of Holy Providence for the accomplishment of his holy will in me to which I dedicate and sacrifice forever."

1646: In Paris, three Daughters of Charity, Jeanne Lepeintre, Claude and Andrea, leave for Le Mans where they were about to take charge of the hospital. Fr. Antonio Portail, who was in the city negotioated the establishment with great optimism. But some people from there were hostile for the Daughters and used slanders about their Novitiate in Paris and predicting that these girls will be shipped to Canada where they would be forced to marry savages. Daughters were returned to Paris then.

1823: Jean-Marie Odin,C.M. is ordained priest at St. Mary's of the Barrens in Perryville, MO. Born on February 25, 1801 in Hauteville, Ambierle, France In 1848 he will become the first Bishop of Galveston, Texas and in 1861 second Archbishop of New Orleans. Died May 25, 1870 there, too, during his visit to Europe of Vatican Council.

1871: An ambulance was organized at Saint-Lazare and two of our Sisters from Gentilly come as nurses.

1897: In Paris, about four p.m., fire was set in the Charity Bazaar, located at rue Jean-Goujon. The fire of lightly varnished wooden construction has been initiated as a result of inflammation caused by projection device lamp. There was no time to organize rescue. Among one hundred and thirty victims removed from the rubble, many of them belonged to distinguished French families, there were thirteen Ladies of Charity and three daughters of Charity who perished in the flames.