St. Francis de Sales by Blanche Jennings Thompson 1965 Vision Book #67 HB

Description: Inside Cover info: Just three hundred years -- only forty-three years after his death ago the same of Bishop Francis de Sales was added to the router of saves. Born in what is now France during that critical period for the Church when the Reformat had made strong in roads, he brought thousands back to the Faith through his preaching and writing. Together with St. Jane Prances de Chantal, whose dramatic life is also recounted in this book, he founded the great Order of the Visitation. His best-known work, Introduction to the De wear Life, is so full of gentleness and understanding that is in still read and cherished. Such a source of inspiration was St. Francis to Pope John XXIII that while a seminarian he whore in his diary, "If I were to be like St. Francis de Sales, I would not even be afraid to become pope THE AUTHOR Blanche Jennings Thompson is a well-known educator who holds degrees from Columbia University and the University of Rochester and an Honorary D. Litt. from Nazareth College in Rochester, N.Y. Her books for young people include four Vision Books: St. Elizabeth's Three Crowns, When Saints Were Young. Saints of the Byzantine World, and Peter and Paul

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