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Vincent de Paul, the Lazarist Mission, and French Catholic Reform (Hardcover)
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Vincent de Paul, the Lazarist Mission, and French Catholic Reform (Hardcover)
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Vincent de Paul, the Lazarist Mission, and French Catholic Reform
offers a major re-assessment of the thought and activities of the
most famous figure of the seventeenth-century French Catholic
Reformation, Vincent de Paul. Confronting traditional explanations
for de Paul's prominence in the devot reform movement that emerged
in the wake of the Wars of Religion, the volume explores how he
turned a personal vocational desire to evangelize the rural poor of
France into a congregation of secular missionaries, known as the
Congregation of the Mission or the Lazarists, with three
inter-related strands of pastoral responsibility: the delivery of
missions, the formation and training of clergy, and the promotion
of confraternal welfare. Alison Forrestal further demonstrates that
the structure, ethos, and works that de Paul devised for the
Congregation placed it at the heart of a significant enterprise of
reform that involved a broad set of associates in efforts to
transform the character of devotional belief and practice within
the church. The central questions of the volume therefore concern
de Paul's efforts to create, characterize, and articulate a
distinctive and influential vision for missionary life and work,
both for himself and for the Lazarist Congregation, and Forrestal
argues that his prominence and achievements depended on his
remarkable ability to exploit the potential for association and
collaboration within the devot environment of seventeenth-century
France in enterprising and systematic ways. This is the first study
to assess de Paul's activities against the wider backdrop of
religious reform and Bourbon rule, and to reconstruct the
combination of ideas, practices, resources, and relationships that
determined his ability to pursue his ambitions. A work of forensic
detail and complex narrative, Vincent de Paul, the Lazarist
Mission, and French Catholic Reform is the product of years of
research in ecclesiastical and state archives. It offers a wholly
fresh perspective on the challenges and opportunities entailed in
the promotion of religious reform and renewal in
seventeenth-century France.
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