LOCAL GALLERY:      VINCENT DE PAUL  - HALF BODY STATUE

 

 

 

The image of Vincent de Paul above is a half-body statue in bronze.   It  is located outside St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne.  The inscription on the stone block reads  "St Vincent de Paul, 1580-1660,  Chosen by Mary Aikenhead as patron of the first Sisters of Charity hospital in Ireland in 1834".  Picture courtesy of St Vincent de Paul Image Archive (John Rybolt CM), DePaul Univeristy, Chicago IL.