Église Saint-Vincent de Paul

This guide to Église Saint-Vincent de Paul opens with the two years the church's namesake spent enslaved in Tunis, passed between masters before an escape across the sea to France. You'll hear how that memory shaped his fight, decades later in Marseille, on behalf of chained galley oarsmen living on watered wine and hard biscuit, and how the building itself rose slowly over three decades on a site still known by another name entirely. Look up at the twin spires as the guide traces who kept paying for them, franc by franc, when the money ran out.