LIFE OF ST. VINCENT

POLITICAL AND SOCIAL HYSTORY

CHURCH HISTORY

CULTURAL EVENTS

1650

Foundation of the house at Périgueux. Marriage of Michel Le Gras. Start of relief given to Picardy and Champagne. "Les Relations" appear.

The Spaniards lay siege to Guise. Arrest of Condé.

Death of Descartes.

1651

Increased aid for Picardy and Champagne. Mission to Limerick. Death of Thaddeus Lee, protomartyr of C.M. 2nd general assembly of C.M. Missionaries arrive in Poland and Scotland. St. Vincent collects signatures against Jansenism.

Condé is released. The Fronde of the Princes breaks out. Louis XIV comes of age.

Foundation of the Foreign Mission of Paris.

1652

Period of most intensive aid to Paris and surrounding districts. St. Vincent mediates in the Fronde. Interviews with the Queen and the Princes. Letters to the Pope and to Mazarin. Leaves the Council of Conscience. Foundation of house at Montauban.

Campaigns of the Fronda. Paris surrenders and the monarchs return. Cardinal de Retz a prisoner at Vincennes.

Bossuet is ordained a priest at the church of Saint Lazare.

1653

St. Vincent gives support to the anti-Jansenist delegation in Rome. The Archbishop of Paris approves the Rules and Constitutions of C.M.

Return of Mazarin. End of the Fronde.

The five Jansenist propositions are condemned in the bull "Cum occasione."

1654

Foundation of the houses at Agde and Turin and establishment of Nom de Jésus hospital. Martyrdom of Pedro Borguny in Algiers. Aid to Picardy continued.

Flight of Cardinal de Retz.

Death of J.F. de Gondi, Archbishop of Paris.