rare item acquisition

Newsnote: Vincentiana Purchase of the week “L’Envol des Blanches Cornettes.”

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The Vincentiana collection at Archives and Special Collections of DePaul University’s Richardson Library this week purchased a rare copy of a charming 1929 “pièce en trois actes, pour Jeunes Filles (avec chœurs, paroles et musique) entitled “L’Envol des Blanches Cornettes ou La Bienheureuse Louise de Marillac.” It was written by Amédée Huc, C.M. The author dedicated this piece “aux Filles de la Charité qui, animées de l’esprit de St-Vincent-de-Paul et de leur Bienheureuse Mère font rayonner en France et dans le monde entier: LA CHARITÉ DU CHRIST.” The work was published in Lyon, “en souvenir du Centenaire de l’Apparition de la ‘Médaille Miraculeuse” 1830-1930.”

Newsnote: Vincentiana Purchase of the Week: “19 thermidor, an II” Rare Saint-Lazare prison document

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The Vincentiana Collection in Special Collections and Archives of DePaul University has recently purchased a rare 1794 document from Saint-Lazare’s early days as a revolutionary prison. This document orders the relase of “citoyen Bergeron” who had been imprisoned at Saint Lazare by the “Comite de Surete Generale.” It is dated 19 termidor an II (6 August 1794). Robespierre had been executed nine days earlier in the Thermidorian reaction. This sealed docment is a copy: “l’original etant depose au greffe de la prison.”

Vincentiana Purchase of the Week: Rare Rosalie Rendu Holy Card

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This rare late 19th century postcard of Rosalie Rendu does not use the familiar mature portrait image of Rosalie but pictures Rosalie as a younger sister. There is also a scene from the barricades of the Revolution of 1848, and a scene with two members of what is presumably the Saint Vincent de Paul Society. One of these gentlemen can be presumed to be Frederic Ozanam.

Newsnote: Vincentiana Purchase of the Week 8/17/2015 St. Vincent’s original parish church: Pouy

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This small rare sepia photograph was recently acquired by the Vincentiana Collection at DePaul University’s Archives and Special Collections. The photograph shows the original parish church at Pouy (near Dax) where St. Vincent was baptized and where he presumably also made his first communion. The town was renamed Saint Vincent de Paul in the 19th century to honor its most famous son. The photograph dates sometime before 1913 when the church had to be torn down because of severe storm damage. Other picture postcards survive but all show the church from the angle of the flood plain below.

Newsnote: “More of World War I and the community in France: The Berceau.”

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This postcard image from 1914 depicts one of the student dormitories at the Berceau of Saint Vincent de Paul (near Dax) temporarily transformed into a military hospital (hopital auxiliaire). Daughters of Charity from the orphanage and hospice served as nurses. In the left hand lower corner a confrere (wearing a biretta) plays a board game with one of the wounded soldiers. This postcard was recently acquired by the Vincentiana collection at the Archives and Special Collections at DePaul University in Chicago.

Newsnote: Book Purchase of the Week: 1744 Rule for a Confraternity of Charity , Monaciglione, Italy

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This very rare Italian volume is the rule for a parish-based Confraternity of Charity modeled after those established by Vincent de Paul in France. The parish was at Monaciglione a small town 31 kilometres northeast of Campobasso, Italy. This volume was purchased for the Vincentian collection in the Special Collections of DePaul University’s Richardson Library.

Newsnote: The Daughters of Charity and the outbreak of World War I

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With the outbreak of war in August of 1914, the Germans implemented their battle plans and quickly invaded France. The Battle of Longwy took place on August 22-23, 1914 and the fort of Longwy was captured by the Germans. Longwy was the first French fort to be taken by the Germans in the Weltkrieg. Much of the town was destroyed. Including the Asile Margaine run by the Daughters of Charity pictured in the contemporary postcard above. The postcard was recently acquired by the Vincentiana collections in Archives and Special Collections at DePaul University. The postcard bears a military postmark dated May 24, 1915. It was sent home by a German soldier.

Newsnote: Vincentiana Purchase of the Week: The Polish Uprising of 1831

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The Vincentiana Collection at Archives and Special Collections of DePaul University this week purchased a rare Polish card dated from the beginning of the 20th century. This card shows a young Polish Daughter of Charity nursing one of the wounded officers from the Battle of Warsaw in September 1831 when Russian forces invaded Poland to crush its rebellion against czarist authority. On 8 September 1831 Warsaw was captured after a valiant defense.

Newsnote: Vincentiana Purchase of the Week 11/26/2014

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The Vincentiana Collection at DePaul University’s Archives and Special Collections recently acquired a commemorative magazine dedicated to the creation and installation of the monumental statue of St. Louise de Marillac in the Vatican basilica. The artist was Antonio Berti. The statue filled the last remaining interior statue niche in St. Peter’s. The date of the magazine is 1954.