Letter from CM Superior Vincent de Paul to the PF prefect [Luigi Capponi], 1650-10-07, Paris

Letter from CM Superior Vincent de Paul to the PF prefect [Luigi Capponi], 1650-10-07, Paris

Scotland

Petitions for missionary patents

Petitions for missionary patents

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 suited, not only because of their zeal and honesty, but also because they speak Gaelic. If this mission is to be authorized, they will leave immediately. In an attached file to this letter the names of the two Irish missionaries appear: Dermitius Deguin [Dermot Duiguin/Duggan] and Francis White, who both ask for the missionary faculties. The letter signed and dated 9 October 1650.

Date discussed 1650-11-07

Additional comments

Vincent de Paul

APF SOCG 297, 257r, 266r, 261r

Both the original Latin text and a French translation have been published in P. Coste, ed., Saint Vincent de Paul: correspondance, entretiens, documents (Paris: 1920-25), vol. 4, doc. 1271. Coste wrongly entitles it "Au cardinal Antoine Barberini": in 1650 Luigi Capponi was prefect of PF. 

1650-10-07

Addressed to [Antonio Barberini jr]

This letter was added as a memoriale to a letter from the nuncio to France to PF, see: APF SOCG 297, 260r (database item 297).For the minutes of the PF meeting where this matter was discussed together with the letter from the nuncio, see:see: APF ACTA 19, 444r-v (database item 470).

Original, signed and dated

Latin

Letter

296

Origin: Paris

Destination: Rome