It was, again, under the inspiration of Cardinal B6rulle, renowned for the pious direction of souls, that the order of Carmelites, hitherto confined to Spain, was founded in France.

The convent in Rue St.

Jacques soon numbered amongst its penitents women of the highest rank.
The labors of Mgr.

de Berulle tended especially to the salvation of individual souls; those of St.Vincent de Paul embraced a vaster field, and one offering more scope to Christian humanity.

Some time before, in 1610, St.Francis de Sales had founded, under the direction of Madame de Chantal, the order of Visitation, whose duty was the care of the sick and poor; he had left the direction of his new institution to M.Vincent, as was at that time the appellation of the poor priest without birth and without fortune, who was one day to be celebrated throughout the world under the name of St.Vincent de Paul.