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Francis de Sales, C.O., O.M. ( French: François de Sales; Italian: Francesco di Sales; 21 August 1567 – 28 December 1622) was a Savoyard Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Geneva and is a saint of the Catholic Church.
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.
Catholicism. Saints. St. Francis de Sales. Share. Bishop of Geneva, Doctor of the Universal Church; born at Thorens, in the Duchy of Savoy, 21 August, 1567; died at Lyons, 28 December, 1622. His father, Francois de Sales de Boisy, and his mother, Francoise de Sionnaz, belonged to old Savoyard aristocratic families.
Jan 24, 2024 · (August 21, 1567 – December 28, 1622) Saint Francis de Sales’ Story. Francis was destined by his father to be a lawyer so that the young man could eventually take his elder’s place as a senator from the province of Savoy in France. For this reason Francis was sent to Padua to study law.
Jan 24, 2023 · Bishop of Geneva, Doctor of the Universal Church, and patron saint of journalists, St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622) was a unique instrument of God during the Counter-Reformation. He discovered he had a talent, and he used it for the service of God and the salvation of souls.
SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES, BISHOP, DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH—1567-1622. Feast: January 29. Francis de Sales was born at the Chateau de Sales in Swiss Savoy on August 21, 1567, and at his baptism in the parish church of Thorens was named Francis Bonaventura, for two greatly loved Franciscan saints.
January 24: Saint Francis de Sales, Bishop and Doctor—Memorial. 1567–1622. Patron Saint of authors, journalists, writers, deaf persons, educators. Canonized April 8, 1665, by Pope Alexander VII. Declared a Doctor of the Church in 1877 by Pope Pius IX. Liturgical Color: White.
Jan 24, 2024 · Saint Francis de Sales, Bishop of Geneva and Doctor of the Church, converted thousands to Catholicism. His spiritual writings influence many. Patron of Journalists, Church Unity.
Jan 24, 2024 · Saint Francis de Sales, Francisco Bayeu y Subìas. Born August 21, 1567 in Thorens-Glières, France, to an ancient noble family of Boisy, in Savoy, he trained in the best French schools, then followed the wishes of his father, who dreamed for him a legal career, and went to study law at the University of Padua.
Twenty years of episcopal labors (1602-1622) Francis de Sales is not as well-known as he should be. Traditionally he has been accepted as a theologian, a mystic, a spiritual writer, a director of souls, the founder of a religious order. Assuredly he has been all these things, and magnificently so.
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