The Vincentiana Collection at the Special Collections and Archives of DePaul University has a program to purchase Vincentian art, material culture, books and manuscripts for its collection which is the largest in the world. This new blog feature will showcase the “purchase of the week.”

The above is a French tapestry processional banner of Saint Vincent de Paul and two children. Embroidery, red velvet, gold-lame trim. c. first half of the 20th century.