VincentWiki:Ephemerides/9 August

1655. Vincent de Paul applies for issuing passports for three Lazarist missionaries, Thomas Berthe, Jean Lasnier and Aubin Gontier, and three Daughters of Charity, Margarita Chétif, Magdalena Raportebled and Joanna Lemeret, who were preparing to travel to Poland on the request of Marie Louise de Gonzaga, the Queen of Poland. The trip was interrupted in Rouen because of the invasion and occupation of Poland by Swedish troops.