St. Vincent's Seminary and College, also known as St. Vincent's College and "The Cape", was an educational facility in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, which had two components: a college, providing a secular education of young men of the region; and a seminary, for the training of candidates for the Catholic priesthood to serve in the Midwestern United States. The school was operated by the priests of the Congregation of the Mission, commonly referred to as the Vincentians, as a part of their mission since their founding in 17th-century France by St. Vincent de Paul. It operated from 1838 to 1979.[1]