St. Francis De Sales: A Biography of the Gentle Saint

by Louise Stacpoole-Kenny

Overview

St. Francis de Sales is famous in the Catholic world for his personality, as well as for his writings and other accomplishments. When he was being considered for beatification, 5,000 witnesses testified to his heroic virtues and miracles. The Calvinist minister of Geneva said of St. Francis de Sales: "If we honored any man as a Saint, I know none more worthy than this man since the days of the Apostles." Impr. 347 pgs,

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781505106763
Publisher:	TAN Books
Publication date:	01/01/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	347
Sales rank:	1,041,516
File size:	626 KB

About the Author

Louise Stacpoole-Kenny was an author of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her biography on St. Francis de Sales was originally published by the Benziger Bros., New York, in 1909 as St. Francis de Sales: A Study of the Gentle Saint. The work received the Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur upon publication. Ms. Stacpoole-Kenny also authored another biography entitled St. Charles Borromeo: A Sketch of the Reforming Cardinal. Her popularly written St. Francis de Sales was reprinted by TAN in 2002, with additional footnotes from the publisher.