Vincent de Paul, † 1660 in Paris; born in Pouy; renewed the clergy and defended the poor and the abandoned; founded (1625) the Congregation of the Missions (Vincentians [C.M.]), today numbering some 3,830 members; mission preachers and seminary educators; with St. Louise de Marillac (15 March), founded the Daughters of Charity; preached against Jansenism; patron of charities, of hospitals and prisoners, and of the Malagasy Republic (Madagascar).