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Bishop and Doctor of the Church; Born: 21 August 1567 Château de Sales, Duchy of Savoy, Holy Roman Empire: Died: 28 December 1622 (aged 55) Lyons, Lyonnais, Kingdom of France: Beatified: 8 January 1661, Rome, Papal States, by Pope Alexander VII Canonized: 8 April 1665, Rome, Papal States, by Pope Alexander VII: Feast
St. Francis de Sales was born to a noble family at Chateau de Sales in the Kingdom of Savoy near Geneva, Switzerland on August 21, 1567. He was a Bishop and Doctor of the Church. Francis was both intelligent and gentle. From a very early age, he desired to serve God. He knew for years he had a ...
Saint Francis of Sales (born Aug. 21, 1567, Thorens-Glières, Savoy—died Dec. 28, 1622, Lyon; canonized 1665; feast day January 24) was a Roman Catholic bishop of Geneva and doctor of the church, who was active in the struggle against Calvinism and cofounded the order of Visitation Nuns. He wrote the devotional classic Introduction to a Devout Life (3rd definitive edition, 1609), which ...
Jan 24, 2024 · Saint Francis de Sales was born into a senatorial family where he was destined to work in government positions of authority. Instead, he felt a call to the priesthood and was ordained for the Diocese of Geneva.
In the Memoirs of the Oratory of St Francis de Sales, Don Bosco made it abundantly clear why he had chosen Francis as patron and model. His words are important and deserve to be perused. In 1844 Don Bosco was appointed chaplain to the institution of the Marchesa Giulia di Barolo, and she agreed to give him the use of two large rooms - which Don Bosco transformed into his `first Oratory church'.
2 For a letter from St. Vincent de Paul to Pope Alexander recommending the canonization of Francis de Sales, see below Saint Vincent de Paul, p. 425. 3 In preparing for publication this series of letters, originally written for the instruction of Madame de Chamoisy, Francis substituted for her name the Greek Philothea, "lover of God."
MACKEY has given an English translation of the <Letters to Persons in the World>, and of the < Letters to Persons in Religion> (London); he has also published noteworthy articles on <St. Francis de Sales as an Orator> (London) and <St. Francis de Sales as a Director> in <Am. Eccl. Rev.> (1898). Transcribed by Frank O'Leary
4 days ago · Jan. 24 marks the Feast of St. Francis de Sales, the patron saint of writers and Christian unity whose role as a priest and bishop helped bring thousands of Protestants back to the Catholic Church ...
Jan 24, 2024 · through the merits of St. Francis de Sales. That what our endeavors cannot obtain may be given us by his intercession. Let us pray: O God, who for the salvation of souls, did will that St. Francis de Sales, Your confessor and bishop, should become all things to all men and women, mercifully grant that we, infused with the gentleness of his charity,
Jun 20, 2016 · St. Francis de Sales then consecrated himself to the Virgin Mary, joined the priesthood, and was later installed as Bishop of Geneva, a part of Europe overrun by Protestants at that time. Francis became well known as an evangelist, a confessor, and even a mystic but everything he did was marked by the simple assurance, “God is love.”
