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 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…
Letter from Vincent de Paul assigning one of his assistants (unnamed in this letter) as co-adjutor to the bishop of Babylon, even though, according to Vincent de Paul, it would be like depriving himself of one eye or one arm. He says that he will…
Letter from Vincent de Paul to [Dionisio Massari] in which he thanks him for his letter, and congratulates him for his new position as Secretary of PF; addressee implied from content, Dionisio Massari became Secretary in August 1649.
Petition on behalf of Vincent de Paul. He asks that PF send the usual missionary faculties for four priests who will go to the Madagascar mission, to join Charles Nacquart; Nacquart's companion Nicolas Gondrée died [in May 1649] six months after…
Letter from Vincent de Paul in which he expresses his gratitude towards PF for all the favors shown towards the members of CM in Rome. He asks for missionary faculties for two priests of CM who want to go to the Hebrides. He thinks they are very…
Small note from Vincent de Paul and Lambert [aux Couteaux] to the nuncio, Nicolò Guidi di Bagno, in which they ask him to write to PF and request faculties for Philippe Le Vacher for the Algiers mission. An Italian translation can be found on f.…
Petition on behalf of Vincent de Paul. He asks that, since a ship will depart for Madagascar in the spring, would PF grant missionary faculties to two Vincentians: Claude Dufour and François Mousnier. He also ask that other priests of CM (which he…
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…
Letter from Vincent de Paul to the nuncio of France, Nicolò Guidi di Bagno, in which he gives him the requested information about Michel Du Saint-Esprit.
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 to send CM missionaries to Salé. It mentions that the consul of Salé had for many years solicited Vincent de Paul for the matter, and that only now has he (Vincent de Paul) found it possible to respond to this…
Letter from Vincent de Paul expressing reservation to send missionaries to Salé because of the Recollects' wish to be reestablished in this mission; joined to an introduction letter from the nuncio to France.
Vincent de Paul writes to [Cardinal Capponi] about the delay in his plan to send four more priests to Madagascar; the delay was down to lack of transportation, as the merchants who had promised to take the four missionaries with them, have postponed…
Letter from Vincent de Paul to PF, in which he discusses the conversation he had with one of the captains, who was due to leave for Madagascar. According to the captain, communication with the island has been interrupted and is not likely to be…
Petition on behalf of Vincent de Paul to PF, which asks for missionary faculties for three priests of CM, to help assist Dermot Duiguin, who is working in the Scottish Highlands and the Hebrides. The priests are: Gerard Brin, Thomas Lumsden and John…
Petition on behalf of Vincent de Paul requesting permission to send three additional missionaries to Madagascar, namely: Claude Dufour, Nicolas Prevost, and François Feydin, seeing that a ship is ready to leave for the island. Vincent de Paul also…
Petition on behalf of Vincent de Paul asking PF to grant full missionary patents to Toussaint Bourdaise, who had been sent to Madagascar a few years before as companion for Jean-François Mousnier, (who in turn had been named apostolic missionary by…
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…
Letter from Vincent de Paul to the nuncio to France, Nicolò Guidi di Bagno. In the letter, Vincent de Paul says he is surprised but very grateful for the honor paid to his congregation, by the fact that PF cardinals have asked him to offer one of the…
Petition on behalf of Vincent de Paul, requesting faculties for two more priests that he would like to send to Madagascar on a ship that is scheduled to leave soon (this spring). The priests' names are François Herbron and François Boussordec.
Petition on behalf of Vincent de Paul, in which he asks that Gabriele [Gabriel] Laudin and Marando Ignatio [Marant Ignace] Arnoul be declared apostolic missionaries in Madagascar, and receive the usual faculties. During the meeting of 26 February…
Petition on behalf of Vincent de Paul. He asks that since there are ships departing for Madagascar this autumn, Nicolò Etienne should be declared a missionary, in order for him to assist the other CM missionaries already in Madagascar. Underneath,…
Petition on behalf of Vincent de Paul to PF, in which he reports that the last ship going to Madagasca has been put to sea, and that one of the four missionaries destined for the Madagascar mission could not make the trip. Vincent de Paul replaced…
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…