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Secular Servant Nurse. The founding of the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, Servants of the Sick Poor in 1633 by Sts. Vincent de Paul and Louise de Marillac created an important roving healthcare model. The community would not remain in a convent, but would nurse the poor in their homes, "having no monastery but the homes of the sick, their cell a hired room, their chapel the parish church, their enclosure the streets of the city or wards of the hospital."