SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL
Letter to the Superior of the Congregation in Marseilles
Paris 27 décembre 1658|12.1 x 18.1 cm|deux pages sur un bifeuillet
Letter signed by Saint Vincent de Paul, addressed to Father Firmin Get, Superior of the Priests of the Mission in Marseille, the text except the signature written in Paris by his secretary and twice dated 27 December 1658. Two pages in black ink on a folded bifolium, with the manuscript address on the verso of the bifolium, a dry seal impressed under paper, and usual folds.
In this exceptionally rare letter, Saint Vincent de Paul fights to save the Christian captives of Tunis, having himself been captured and held as a slave in that very city for two years.
The letter, recently cited in Vincentian scholarship, is an essential document for...
€12,000