Contract of union between the house of St. Lazare and CM 1634-12-01, Paris
St. Lazare
Four unnumbered folios written face-verso containing "Confirmatio Contractus et concessionis domus Hospitalis seu Prio’tus Cong’ni cum noua concess’ne." Two separate folios in middle, containing the decision by SCER (written in a different hand). More details in the attached transcription.
Date approved 1635-03-02
Additional comments
Possible date of second discussion in SCER is 1 December 1634 (the notes on the document are not clear).
CM
ASV Cong.Vesc. Pos.Episc. 1635
This is neither P. Coste, ed., Saint Vincent de Paul: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents (Brooklyn, NY: 1985-2010), vol. 13, doc. 77 nor ibidem, doc. 79. Rather close in content to doc. 77, esp. in that it places the contract under the authority of the pope, yet it is not an exact translation of the French document reproduced in Coste.
1634-12-01
Addressed to SCER
See for the SCER meeting discussing, among other topics, this contract: ASV Cong.Vesc. Reg.Episc. 79 39r, 41r (database item 73).
Contemp. copy; Latin.
Latin
Contract
74
Origin: Paris
Destination:
Petition on behalf of CM to Urban VIII [1640]
CM petitions
France (missions in)
Petitions for faculties
Petition for permission that CM priests may grant plenary indulgence to those who make general or particular confession, as well as indulgence for ten years to those who listen to their exhortations. The petition also requests that CM members receive the faculty to absolve sins (regardless of how great they are), to cancel or change vows (with the exception of the vows of chastity), to enter a religious order, and to make pilgrimage to Jerusalem and St. Jacob. Permission was also requested to allow CM priests to transmit faculties to their inferiors, or whomever they bring along in their missions.
Date discussed 1640
Additional comments
The Vincentiana edition was not consulted for the purposes of this database.
CM
APF SOCG 401 , 590r, 591v
P. Coste, ed., Saint Vincent de Paul: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents (Brooklyn, NY: 1985-2010), vol. 13a, doc. 85b (English translation); also in Vincentiana (see footnote in Coste).
[1640]
Addressed to Urban VIII
For the minutes of the PF meeting where this matter was discussed, see: APF ACTA 14, 17r, 23r-v (database item 146).
See also: APF SOCG 401, 587r, 594v (database item 155) and APF LETTERE 20 9v-10r (database item 157).
Original; unsigned, undated; Italian; no PF notes on the back
Italian
Petition
156
Origin: unknown
Destination: [Rome]
General report on the status and activities of CM, [1648 or later]
Mission reports
Report on the status and activities of CM. The congregation was founded in 1524 and approved in 1632, with Vincent de Paul as superior general. The congregation has 20 houses, of which 16 are located in France (in Lorraine and Savoy), and two in Italy (in Rome and Genoa). Other houses are located in Ireland, Madagascar, on the Barbary coast, and in the Hebrides. The report also notes that CM has three aims: a) the perfection of the spirit; b) the maintaining of spiritual health of others, especially the poor inhabitants of the countryside; and c) the education of the clergy.
Additional comments
Written after 1648 (the Madagascar mission started in 1648 and all the other houses mentioned in this document were founded earlier).
CM
APF SOCG 200, 233r-v
[1648 or later]
Addressed to PF
Original, unsigned and undated
Italian
Report
309
Origin: unknown
Destination: