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Frederic Ozanam - France - 19th
Century
We don’t give up going to the doctor because someone
dies or give up football or games because someone makes a mistake. Frederic
Ozanam did not opt out of God, people and religion when France was anti God,
anti religion, and anti church, after The Revolution.
He believed in God as The Compassionate Father and saw
his life as caring for the poor and deprived. Although a young man and
intellectual, he founded The Vincent de Paul Society in 1833, which has now
spread its caring branches all over the world.
I recall some of his sayings.
‘‘Poverty is any kind of
deprivation. Some people hope, some doubt, some curse, others believe and
wait. I am among those who believe and wait for God and country’.
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