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If you think about it, people named Francis have it worse. San Francisco is one of the worst places in the US for Gays, abortion, and all that is wrong with the US. It is named after Saint Francis [San Francisco].

Saint Vincent de Paul was a great champion of the faith when he was alive.

The Queen of France wanted him to become cardinal when a cardinal died (Cardinal Richelieu became the cardinal when Saint Vincent de Paul declined). [That is the Cardinal Richelieu famous from the Three Musketeers, a story based on some information from that time.]

Saint Vincent de Paul helped the poor.

And there was another case where the Queen of France wanted to name a man who would have become a very bad bishop. Saint Vincent de Paul, at great personal expense, stood up to the Queen, and the man was not named bishop.

The Queen forced Saint Vincent de Paul to tell the man's mother (probably a friend of the Queen) that her son would not be named bishop.

When St. Vincent told the woman that her son would not be made bishop, she threw an iron (for laundry) at St. Vincent, hitting him in the forehead.

St. Vincent left, without complaining, even though his assistant wanted to give the woman a piece of his mind (which St. Vincent would not allow).

There is great respect for Saint Vincent today.