Today we remember, amongst many things;
The birthdays of Clement Freud, Bridget Riley & Barbara Streisand
We remember the deaths of Mellitus, Daniel Defoe and Wilfrid …. the man who organised worship here in Ripon. 
And …..
St Vincent de Paul, a French Catholic priest who dedicated himself to serving the poor. In 1622 Vincent was appointed a chaplain to the galleys, working in Paris among imprisoned galley slaves. And my first school was a St Vincent de Paul school.