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2 unusual facts about Francis de Sales


Niagara Catholic High School

In 1954 construction of a new school began to rise adjacent to the old structure and dedicated two years later on January 29, 1956, the feast day of Saint Francis de Sales.

Under the direction of the Catholic order of priests known as the Oblates of Saint Francis de Sales, the school slowly grew into one of the city's most popular High Schools.


Dallas Willard

Willard has a recommended reading page on his website listing specific titles by Thomas a Kempis, William Law, Frank Laubach, William Wilberforce, Richard Baxter, Charles Finney, Jan Johnson, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Jeremy Taylor, Richard Foster, E. Stanley Jones, William Penn, Brother Lawrence, Francis de Sales, and others.

John Eudes

Influenced by the teaching of the French school and St. Francis de Sales, especially as set out in the Treatise on the Love of God, and also by the revelations of St. Gertrude and St. Mechtilde, he was the theoretician, so to speak, of devotion to the Sacred Heart and explained the expressions of his predecessors.

L'Escalade

Pope Clement VIII offered encouragement; in 1602 he appointed as Catholic bishop of Geneva Francis de Sales, an effective preacher who had recently been successful in re-Catholicizing the Chablais district of Savoy on the south side of Lake Geneva.

Sacred Heart

It was established as a devotion with prayers already formulated and special exercises, found in the writings of Lanspergius (d. 1539) of the Carthusians of Cologne; the Louis of Blois (Blosius, 1566), a Benedictine and Abbot of Liessies in Hainaut, John of Avila (d. 1569) and St. Francis de Sales, the latter belonging to the seventeenth century.


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Baptist Seminary of Kentucky

Georgetown, located off I-75, is the home of the Toyota Motor Plant; Ward Hall built in 1853 and referred to as the finest example of Greek Revival architecture in the south; the Cardome Centre, former monastery building designed for the Sisters of the Visitation in 1898; and St Francis de Sales Mission, the oldest church in the Diocese of Covington built in 1794.

Congregations of the Precious Blood

Bernadines of the Precious Blood - A congregation of nuns, no longer in existence, founded by Mother Ballou with the assistance of St. Francis de Sales, as an offshoot of the reformed Cistercianesses

Divyadaan: Journal of Philosophy and Education

The Institute is run by the Society of St Francis de Sales, also known as the Salesians of Don Bosco, an international Catholic religious congregation whose primary mission is the education of young people, especially those who are disadvantaged.

Gene Zmuda

Born and raised in Toledo, Ohio, Zmuda attended St. Francis de Sales High School before going on to receive his bachelor's and law degrees from the University of Toledo.

Giovanni Angelo Canini

In 1666, he painted a small gouache scenes with the Miracles of Francis de Sales for the church of villa Versailles at Formello.

Keith Dressel

Many organizations put up memorial funds for the detective's family such as, University of Toledo, St. Francis De Sales High School and the Toledo Police Department.

Lorenzo De Caro

Finarte Collection – Rome: Painting of Saint Francis de Sales preaching to the Salesians;

Missionaries of St. Francis de Sales

In 1845 his offer was accepted by the Propaganda, and the first missionaries of St. Francis de Sales set out for India.

MSFS

Missionaries of St. Francis de Sales, a Catholic religious group founded in response to the desire of St. Francis de Sales to found a society of missionary priests.

Salesian Sisters

Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary, also known as Visitationists, founded by in 1610 by Saint Francis de Sales and Saint Jane Frances de Chantal

Sisters of the Precious Blood

Bernadines of the Precious Blood - A congregation of nuns, no longer in existence, founded by Mother Ballou with the assistance of St. Francis de Sales, as an offshoot of the reformed Cistercians