This brilliant, sensitive young man of middle class background was confronted daily by the misery of the working poor of Paris, immortalized in Puccini’s La Boheme. He and a group of students founded the St. Vincent de Paul Society, which now has 700,000 members in 142 countries.
Bl. Frédéric Ozanam
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