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...an outstandingly rich account. * Henry Phillips, The Seventeenth Century * Forrestal's biography has transformed our understanding of Vincent de Paul, one of the Church's greatest saints. * Daire Keogh, The Irish Catholic * Alison Forrestal accomplishes a remarkable feat in this monograph by transforming our understanding of one of the most important and well-studied figures in the French and European Catholic Reformations... Forrestal's focus on the life of de Paul allows her to explore how he was both a product of his times and relationships as well as a driving force in the French Catholic Reformation. It is this insight that makes this groundbreaking book so interesting. * Eric W. Nelson, Journal of Jesuit Studies * Forrestal has provided an excellent study of de Paul. Based on detailed research and a deep knowledge of seventeenth-century France, she reassigns agency to an individual who was a good strategist, while not downplaying the context in which he operated. She has provided a work which all historians of the Counter-Reformation should read. * Elizabeth Tingle, Journal of Ecclesiastical History * [A] major contribution to the study of Catholicism in early modern France. * Robert Bireley, Renaissance Quarterly * Forrestal's work is important in locating the iconic Vincent de Paul within the complex world of Catholic Renewal. She not only shows how de Paul's activities were embedded in Old Regime practices but also highlights how the Lazarist mission contributed to the rise of the absolutist state. * Mita Choudhury, H-France * Alison Forrestal's excellent new study contextualizes Vincent de Paul's trajectory from unknown, benefice-hunting priest to member of the highest-ranking royal council responsible for the appointment of French bishops towards the end of his life. Exploring a wealth of regional archives next to those of the Congregation de la Mission, she is the first to deliver a critical historical study of Vincent de Paul and the Lazarists outside hagiographic parameters and which is fully embedded in the current historiographical horizon of the debate on Catholic Reform and French social and political history. * Nicole Reinhardt, French History * masterly monograph... brims with riches for scholars of early modern Catholicism * Journal of Religious History * Forrestal's study is an excellent work of scholarship. With extensive research in French and foreign archives, she has offered the reader a sober and balanced narrative of the life and work of Vincent de Paul. More importantly - and this, in my view, is the greatest contribution of her book - she has painstakingly and skillfully reconstructed the different networks that enabled de Paul to build and extend his missionary enterprise ... Forrestal's biography of Vincent de Paul is likely to become a classic work of this influential figure in seventeenth century French Catholicism. * R. Po-chia Hsia, American Historical Review * Forrestals work is important in locating the iconic Vincent de Paul within the complex world of Catholic Renewal. She not only shows how de Pauls activities were embedded in Old Regime practices but also highlights how the Lazarist mission contributed to the rise of the absolutist state. * Mita Choudhury, H-France * Alison Forrestal's exploration of the life of Vincent de Paul and the Lazarist Mission is fresh and presents a new facet within the larger study of Vincentiana...Scholars of early modern French Catholicism will find in Forrestal's bibliography a treasure trove of sources in English, French, and other European languages. Any serious scholar of de Paul, de Marillac, the Catholic Reformation, or Early Modern France in general would benefit greatly from a thorough reading of Forrestal's research. * Brian Boosel, Saint Vincent College, Catholic Historical Review *

...an outstandingly rich account. * Henry Phillips, The Seventeenth Century * Forrestal's biography has transformed our understanding of Vincent de Paul, one of the Church's greatest saints. * Daire Keogh, The Irish Catholic * Alison Forrestal accomplishes a remarkable feat in this monograph by transforming our understanding of one of the most important and well-studied figures in the French and European Catholic Reformations... Forrestal's focus on the life of de Paul allows her to explore how he was both a product of his times and relationships as well as a driving force in the French Catholic Reformation. It is this insight that makes this groundbreaking book so interesting. * Eric W. Nelson, Journal of Jesuit Studies * Forrestal has provided an excellent study of de Paul. Based on detailed research and a deep knowledge of seventeenth-century France, she reassigns agency to an individual who was a good strategist, while not downplaying the context in which he operated. She has provided a work which all historians of the Counter-Reformation should read. * Elizabeth Tingle, Journal of Ecclesiastical History * [A] major contribution to the study of Catholicism in early modern France. * Robert Bireley, Renaissance Quarterly * Forrestal's work is important in locating the iconic Vincent de Paul within the complex world of Catholic Renewal. She not only shows how de Paul's activities were embedded in Old Regime practices but also highlights how the Lazarist mission contributed to the rise of the absolutist state. * Mita Choudhury, H-France * Alison Forrestal's excellent new study contextualizes Vincent de Paul's trajectory from unknown, benefice-hunting priest to member of the highest-ranking royal council responsible for the appointment of French bishops towards the end of his life. Exploring a wealth of regional archives next to those of the Congregation de la Mission, she is the first to deliver a critical historical study of Vincent de Paul and the Lazarists outside hagiographic parameters and which is fully embedded in the current historiographical horizon of the debate on Catholic Reform and French social and political history. * Nicole Reinhardt, French History * masterly monograph... brims with riches for scholars of early modern Catholicism * Journal of Religious History * Forrestal's study is an excellent work of scholarship. With extensive research in French and foreign archives, she has offered the reader a sober and balanced narrative of the life and work of Vincent de Paul. More importantly - and this, in my view, is the greatest contribution of her book - she has painstakingly and skillfully reconstructed the different networks that enabled de Paul to build and extend his missionary enterprise ... Forrestal's biography of Vincent de Paul is likely to become a classic work of this influential figure in seventeenth century French Catholicism. * R. Po-chia Hsia, American Historical Review * Forrestals work is important in locating the iconic Vincent de Paul within the complex world of Catholic Renewal. She not only shows how de Pauls activities were embedded in Old Regime practices but also highlights how the Lazarist mission contributed to the rise of the absolutist state. * Mita Choudhury, H-France *

...an outstandingly rich account. * Henry Phillips, The Seventeenth Century *

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Alison Forrestal is Lecturer in Early Modern History at the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG), having previously held lectureships at Durham University and the University of Warwick. She is the author of multiple publications on the Catholic Reformation, including the monographs Catholic Synods in Ireland, 1600-1690 (1998), and Fathers, Pastors and Kings: Visions of Episcopacy in Seventeenth-Century France (2004), and the co-edited volumes Politics and Religion in Early Bourbon France (2009), and The Frontiers of Mission: Perspectives on Early Modern Missionary Catholicism (2016).

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