VincentWiki:Ephemerides/21 June

1652: Conference of Vincent de Paul in Saint Lazare on zeal, which deals with the reasons for having a great zeal for our perfection and for salvation of souls, acts of this zeal and misconducst against and the means to conserve and raise it.

1698: The Lord of Longué and his wife signed a establishement contract with Mother Juliana Laboue of three sisters for the care of sick and the education of poor girls in parishes of Longué and Saint Philibert, near Saumur. It was required to send the Daughters as soon as possible. They would have left Paris on Monday, July 21.

1776: The Lord of Fleury in Bière passed contract with Mother Renée Malville and superiors for establishment of three Daughters of Charity in his lands for service to the sick and education of poor girls. Details were given on housing and annuities. The departure of the Sisters took place in October 1777.

1852: First ten Daughters of Charity are received by Msgr Danicourt and Fr Mountagneux in the port of Ningbo (Ningpo), China. They will settle in Zhejiang (Chekiang) province. To avoid problems in these politically scrambled times, they landed by night on board of a corvette which brought them from Macao.

1870: Population of Tianjin (Tientsin), China was shocked by the slander at the Holy Infant Mission, where massacred were two Vincentians: Frs Ou and Chevrier and ten Daughters of Charity who were taking care of Chinese children.

1881: In Paray-le-Monial, in the chapel of the apparition of Jesus to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, at ten o'clock, the Superior General of the Congregation of the Mission, Fr Antoine Fiat, accompanied by the Superioress General of Company of Daughters of Charity and several Lazarists and Daughters, read, kneeling in the middle of the sanctuary, the act of consecration the Congregation of the Mission and the Company of Daughters of Charity to the heart of Jesus. Next,text of the document was enclosed in a gilt heart on which the following words are engraved: on one side: «Les Enfants de saint Vincent, dévoués et pénitents, au Cœur de Jésus» (Children of Saint Vincent, dedicated and penitent, in the Heart of Jesus" and on another: «Antoine Fiat, Supérieur général, 21 juin 1881» (Antoine Fiat, Superior General, June 21, 1881). The reliquary was placed near the table representing the emergence of the Sacred Heart to St. Margaret Mary.

1890: In Montolieu died Fr Paul Antonio Nicolle CM, born in 1817. He was missionary in Tours where numerous conversions were noticed retentively, professor in Amiens, and then Superior in Albi where he has a profound influence on seminarians. In Valfleury, he found the money necessary for the completion of the sanctuary and lead to coronation of the Virgin venerated in this place for ten centuries. In 1860 he founded the archconfraternity of the Holy Agony, and in 1864, the Institute of Sisters of the Holy Agony yielding honor of the Christ of Gethsemane with a life of prayer and penance and engagement in home care for the sick and spiritual care of girls. In 1984, the Institute was renamed as Religious Sisters of Christ of Gethsemane.