Social Assistance São Vicente de Paulo was founded on December 10 of the year  One thousand nine hundred and forty-four in the city of Vera Cruz, state of São Paulo, by Monsignor Florentino Santamaria, whose aim was to welcome the elderly in the city of Vera Cruz who found themselves in a situation of helplessness, abandonment or at risk of death, thus beginning a long history that is mixed with the history of the population of our city, of care for those welcomed, with attention, love, care and dignity to the elderly, in the same way that St. Vincent de Paul once left us as a teaching.