Petition on behalf of Toussaint Bourdaise, François Feydin, François Boussordec and other CM missionaries in Madagascar to PF. They ask for several books to be sent.
Petition on behalf of Vincent de Paul asking to appoint Toussaint Bourdaise, as the new prefect of the Madagascar mission, following the death of the previous prefect, Charles Nacquart. The petition mentions that Bourdaise had already been declared…
Petition on behalf of Vincent de Paul to the pope [Alexander VII], asking to extend to the whole of CM, the faculties that were orginally granted to the house in Rome (in regards to the absolution of reserved cases). PF notes on f. 282v indicate the…
Petition on behalf of Vincent de Paul to Cardinal Francesco Barberini. The petition states there are people in France who want to obtain permission from PF to form a new congregation of secular missionaries in France. The cardinal is asked to take…
Petition on behalf of Vincent de Paul, in which he asks that Philippe Le Vacher be granted faculties for the mission in Algiers. He also requests that Le Vacher receive more authority in order to remedy the disorders among the slave priests. The…
Petition filed on behalf of Vincent de Paul, requesting that he be granted unspecified "reformed faculties for France," with the capacity to transmit faculties to further members of CM, after having those individuals approved by theologians adjoined…
Second petition on behalf of CM requesting approval in 1628; it repeats the demands of the first petition and adds two new clauses (singled out in the PF notes on 62r). The additions underline that: a) the priests would do their work free of charge;…
Petition on behalf of Vincent de Paul and the first CM missionaries to Pope Urban VIII for the establishment of their congregation; a note on 52v shows that the request was presented by Cardinal Bentivoglio in the PF general meeting of 22 August…
Petition on behalf of Luigi Da Palermo. He has been named vicar apostolic of Tunis, and vicar general of Carthage by Gio' Le Vascier [Jean Le Vascer]. During the year, he has written letters but had not recieved any answeres. He travelled to…
