1. evangelization of the poor

2. The Congregation Vincent founded bore the title of “the mission” Vincent could see, especially during the time he spent in Madame de Gondi's household, that nearly all country districts were badly neglected. So he and his priests began to preach missions in country parishes & rural places in France

3. expansion; foreign missions They also reached out widely in their missions Vincent’s zeal moved him, in his later life, despite all the many calls being made on him at home in France, to send missionaries to Corsica, the British Isles and Madagascar

4. on the battlefield

5. with the galley slaves

6. in hospitals

7. teaching

8. comforting the poor

9. being there with poor families

10. respecting the poor

11. vincent and “the poor as christ”