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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 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.
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.
- Saint Francis de Sales received his doctorate in law at 24 years old. Then, despite his father’s hesitation, Francis de Sales entered the priesthood.
- He lived during the Protestant Reformation and worked to bring Calvinists back to the Catholic Church. He became the bishop of Geneva at 35 years old.
- Saint Francis de Sales is the patron saint of Catholic press because he was one of the first to use written communication to spread the faith to fallen-away Catholics.
- He was known for his patient and gentle nature.
They were not especially good years for a bishop of the Catholic Church, in particular the Bishop of Geneva. The future St. Francis de Sales was born in a chateau on the shores of Lake Geneva on. August 21, 1567. His family was part of the House of Savoie, a family of Nobles in Europe at. the time.
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.
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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.
