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Dehon writes about his activity in the St. Vincent de Paul Society in Paris:
"Our poor belonged to the Mouffetard quarter, in our days crossed by the Boulevard St. Germain: thickly populated, old, dirty and full of physical and moral miseries. The poverty was abominable there. I specifically looked after two elderly men, who lived under the roof, totally destitute, in a small attic in which I couldn't even stand up straight.” (NHV I/36r s.) ... |
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