Introduction to the Devout Life - Softcover

De Sales, Saint Francis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1617202975 ISBN 13: 9781617202971

Publisher: Wilder Publications, 2023

Synopsis

Almost all those who have written concerning the devout life have had chiefly in view persons who have altogether quitted the world; or at any rate they have taught a manner of devotion which would lead to such total retirement. But my object is to teach those who are living in their own households, and whose calling obliges them to a social life, so far as externals are concerned. And so I have shown them that a true stedfast soul may live in the world untainted by worldly breath, finding a well-spring of holy piety amid the bitter waves of society, and hovering amid the flames of earthly lusts without singeing the wings of its devout life.

About this title

About the Author

St. Francis de Sales, bishop, Doctor of the Church, and patron of writers, was ordained a priest in 1593. He reconverted the inhabitants of Chablais from Calvinism. He was elected bishop of Geneva in 1602. With Jane Frances Fr myot, Baroness de Chantal, St. Francis founded the Visitation of Holy Mary in Annecy in Savoy. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Lyons, France, on December 28, 1622. St. Francis de Sales was canonized in 1665.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wilder Publications
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1617202975
• ISBN 13: 9781617202971
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 181