Saint Vincent de Paul: A Biography

In Saint Vincent de Paul: A Biography, Marie-Joëlle Guillaume reconstructs the life of the peasant who became a saint, showing how Vincent de Paul gradually established himself as a conscience of his time. From his partnership with Louise de Marillac, which awakened the commitment and generosity of high-society women, to the call he received from Queen Anne of Austria to combat Jansenism, through the horrors of the Thirty Years' War and foreign evangelizing missions, this is not only the biography of a holy man, but also an account of 17th-century history.