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About St. Francis de Sales
1567 – 1622 · Feast January 24 · Bishop / Doctor of the Church
Savoyard bishop and spiritual writer (1567-1622), Bishop of Geneva (resident at Annecy), missionary to the Calvinist Chablais where he reconciled tens of thousands using leaflets and gentle persuasion. Author of the "Introduction to the Devout Life" and "Treatise on the Love of God"; co-founder with St. Jane Frances de Chantal of the Visitation Sisters. Doctor of the Church (1877); patron of writers and the Catholic press.
St. Francis de Sales is the patron saint of Authors, Teachers, Deafness, Writers, Journalists, Catholic Press and Deaf People.
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