Doctor of the Church relied on divine grace and the maternal care of the Virgin Mary to temper that vice and become a man of ...

International Days of Saint Francis de Sales, being held in Rome during the Jubilee of the World of Communication, bring ...

Perhaps the best example of how St. Francis de Sales embodied kindness and truth lies in his famous axiom, “a spoonful of ...

Francis de Sales was canonized a saint in 1665. In 1878 Pope Pius IX declared him a doctor of the Church. Not long after that, John Bosco would make him the patron of his newly founded ...

St. Francis de Sales Catholic School will be celebrating Catholic Schools Week Jan. 26 – Feb. 1. The week will kickoff with a family mass on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. Mass will be followed by a pancake ...

merging with St. Francis de Sales in Newark. “The parish of St. Leonard is effectively suppressed, and the territory, assets and liabilities of St. Leonard are assumed by the parish of St ...

Be who you are and be that well.” On today’s feast of Saint Francis de Sales, Talking Saints hosts, Pete Sanchez and Laurie ...

St. Francis de Sales died in 1622 at a convent he had helped to found in Lyons. He was canonized in 1665, and named a Doctor of the Church in 1877. He is the patron saint of writers and Christian ...

In 2000 St. John Paul II declared the miracle attributed to Blessed Frances de Sales Aviat, whom he had beatified in 1992. A year later, she was canonized by him. Today Bernadette lives a quiet ...

May thy heart dwell always in our hearts! May thy blood ever flow in the veins of our souls! O sun of our hearts, thou givest life to all things by the rays of thy goodness!