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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.
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.
St. Francis de Sales. Catholic Online. Saints & Angels. Facts. Feastday: January 24. Patron: of Catholic writers, the Catholic press, the deaf, journalists, adult education. Birth: August 21, 1567. Death: December 28, 1622. Beatified: January 8, 1661 by Pope Alexander VII. Canonized: April 19, 1665 by Pope Alexander VII.
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.
- Franciscan Media
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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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.
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Learn about the life and legacy of St. Francis de Sales, who died 400 years ago today. He was a bishop, a spiritual writer, a preacher and a patron of the Catholic press who proclaimed God's love and the universal call to holiness.
