VincentWiki:Ephemerides/8 May

1632: Marshal Louis de Marillac, uncle of Louise de Marillac, who had participated in the plot to remove the Cardinal Richelieu of power, is sentenced to death. It will be beheaded on May 10 at the de Grève Place. Vincent de Paul tried to console Luise saying that no matter how our relatives are going to God, as long as they go, and encouraged to accept the divine will.

1647: Saint Louise wrote to the Sisters of Nantes: "We can not have peace with God, with our neighbor and with ourselves, if Jesus Christ has not given it to us and if He gives us that by the merits of his wounds and suffering which we will be applied by the mortification in the very holy will of God."

1692: In Paris, the twenty-fifth session puts fifth General Assembly of the Congregation of the Mission to an end. It was the third which took place during the twenty-four years when Fr Edmond Jolly was Superior General. The Assembly has highlighted, among the Rules, compliance with which is being neglected, brotherly love and, above all, poverty. It was said that some members of the Congregation improperly used the money to buy tobacco and luxury rosaries and even suede shirts. The Assembly also agreed to open two new internal seminaries: in Toul, in Champagne, in late 1692, and in Angers, in Poitou, which will be open in the summer of 1693.

1945: In Paris, while bells announce end of the war, Vicar General, Fr. Robert, from hospital of Saint-Michel, addresses a circular to Lazarists in France in which he invites them, in terms of high spiritual elevation, to thank Divine Providence for the long-awaited armistice.

1950: In the Maison-Mère, Brother Paul Dequidt died. After twelve years stay at St. Benedict College in Constantinople, he had to return to France because of WWI. Reformed early months, it remains the Mother House. For thirty-five years, he was dedicated to Maison-Mère as cavist, gardener and responsible for central heating at all necessary obscure and hard work.

1952: Bishop Verkoeks,C.M., Vicar Apostolic of Surabaïa (Java) died. He was sacred ten years earlier, and exerted his duties during whole World War II. Foreign Vincentians were interned in a cell from September 4, 1943 to September 1945. It for Eleven of them remained unaccounted until the liberation.