Saint Vincent Pallotti
The Saint & Missionary of Rome
St. Vincent Pallotti, who lived the entirety of his life in Rome from 1795-1850, was a mystic in action. He constantly took the Gospel to the cobblestone streets, where his pastoral approach was dynamic, invigorating, and prophetic; where the holiness of all the baptized - Lay & Religious - were called to build up the Church. Driven by the “greater glory of God” alone, he had an intense missionary impetus, and a spirituality that reached to the remotest hemispheres. This is the charism that came to form the Pallottine Congregation - comprised of Fathers, Brothers, Sisters, and the laity - now present in more than 50 countries.
When his body was exhumed for the process of beatification in 1906, he was found fully incorrupt by the Church’s canonical commission. Even more remarkable, his body had survived decades of floods; as the Church of his resting - Ss. Salvatore in Onda, Holy Savior of the Waves - was often deluged by the bordering Tiber River.
St. Vincent was declared Blessed by Ven. Pope Pius XII in the Holy Year of 1950, and canonized by St. Pope John XXIII in January 1963. In April of that same year, he was declared Patron of the Pontifical Missionary Union.
His Statutes of 1835 Are Our Driver
In 1835, St. Vincent wrote statutes to become the distinctive works of his vision. We Are A Mission’s aim is to revive them word for word through the advances of the 21st century.
To form the heart and spirit for the foreign missions
To establish and continue an extended correspondence with faraway places in order to know and make known their particular spiritual needs
To help the propagation of the faith in Rome
To write and translate books
To evaluate each mission after understanding the conditions, and then making known the most edifying results
To animate and create interest in order to promote and further the precious work of the missions
Whenever we will have established contacts with faraway places and begin to receive directly or indirectly the reports of the respective missions, the good done by them, and the different needs met, we shall publish monthly a printed leaflet or a magazine dedicated to the above matters. The reading of these, besides giving enjoyment, should also give spiritual benefit
The object is to provide freely to the missions, especially the foreign missions
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