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Set Your Heart Free: 30 Days with Francis de Sales
Set Your Heart Free: 30 Days with Francis de Sales
Set Your Heart Free: 30 Days with Francis de Sales
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Set Your Heart Free by Francis de Sales offers readers the same spiritual wisdom, encouragement, and spellbinding insights that once drew people from all over Europe to this saint's door. Drawn from Francis's immensely popular writings, this prayer resource for individuals or groups emboldens readers to encounter God and pray in their own unique way.

Each book in the Great Spiritual Teachers series provides a month of daily readings from one of Christianity's most beloved spiritual guides. For each day there is a brief and accessible morning meditation drawn from the mystic's writings, a simple mantra for use throughout the day, and a night prayer to focus one's thoughts as the day ends. These easy-to-use books are the perfect prayer companion for busy people who want to root their spiritual practice in the solid ground of these great spiritual teachers.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateJul 1, 2008
ISBN9781594715129
Set Your Heart Free: 30 Days with Francis de Sales
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Francis de Sales

Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622) was born in France to a wealthy family. Though he initially followed his father's direction and became a lawyer, he was drawn to the priesthood, and became the Bishop of Geneva in 1602. Francis was a spellbinding preacher, and a kind and gentle friend to all. His immensely popular writings clarified Catholic teachings in an era of bitter and confusing rivalry between Catholics and Protestants. His Introduction to the Devout Life and Treatise on the Love of God introduced lay people to spiritual direction and spiritual formation. Francis became a saint in 1665, and a Doctor of the Church in 1877.  

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    Set Your Heart Free - Francis de Sales

    Contents

    Timeline

    Who Is Francis de Sales?

    How to Use This Book

    Thirty Days with Francis de Sales

    One Final Word

    Timeline

    1517

    The Protestant Reformation begins with Martin Luther’s posting of his Ninety-Five Theses on the door of a Wittenberg church.

    1545

    In response to the turmoil of the Protestant Reformation, Pope Paul III convokes the Council of Trent.

    1563

    The Council of Trent concludes, having clarified the relationship between Scripture and Tradition, and affirming many traditional Catholic practices such as the veneration of the saints and the Blessed Virgin Mary.

    1567

    Francis de Sales is born in the Duchy of Savoy—what is today France.

    ca. 1578

    Spanish mystic and saint John of the Cross writes his Dark Night of the Soul.

    1583

    Francis attends the Collège de Clermont, a Jesuit institution in Paris.

    1584

    Francis attends a theological conference on predestination and becomes convinced of his certain damnation, entering into a crisis of despair.

    1586 or 1587

    Francis experiences consolation after praying the Memorare. He consecrates himself to the Blessed Mother and becomes a tertiary of the Minim Order, a religious order that espoused humility and asceticism.

    1588

    Teresa of Avila, a Spanish mystic and saint, writes The Interior Castle, a guide to spiritual development and union with God.

    1588

    Francis completes his studies at Collège de Clermont and enrolls at the University of Padua in Italy.

    1592

    Francis receives his doctorate in law and theology, and returns home to the Duchy of Savoy.

    1593

    After conflict with his family, who expected Francis to marry and begin a political or military career, Francis is ordained as a priest.

    1599

    Francis is appointed coadjutor bishop of Geneva (in what is today Switzerland) whose citizens had largely become Protestant Calvinists.

    1601

    Henry IV, king of France, invites Francis to give Lenten sermons to the Parisian court.

    1602

    Francis is ordained the bishop of Geneva.

    1604

    Francis meets the widow Jane Francis de Chantal in Dijon, France and becomes her spiritual advisor.

    1609

    Francis publisher his spiritual masterpiece Introduction to the Devout Life.

    1610

    Francis, along with Jane Francis de Chantal, founds the women’s Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary (also known as the Visitandines or Visitation Sisters) in Annecy, France.

    1616

    Francis writes his Treatise on the Divine Love of God.

    1622

    Francis dies after a stroke on December 28, in Lyon, France.

    1661

    Francis is beatified by Pope Alexander VII.

    1665

    Francis de Sales is canonized by Pope Alexander VII.

    1751

    Jane Francis de Chantal is beatified by Pope Benedict XIV.

    1767

    Jane Francis de Chantal is canonized by Pope Clement XIII.

    1877

    Pope Pius IX names Francis a doctor of the Church.

    1923

    Pope Pius XI proclaims Francis a patron of writers and journalists.

    Who Is Francis de Sales?

    For four-and-a-half centuries Francis de Sales has been in and out of style, at one moment riding the wave of popularity, at another left behind. Yet every generation that has read his books and letters has found in them a wise and warm, moderate and gentle companion for their spiritual journey. He comes across as psychologically insightful, as someone whose advice you can trust.

    He was a nobleman, a scholar, a lawyer, a bishop, a religious founder, and in time, a saint and a doctor of the Church. Despite these achievements, Francis was, as he told St. Jane de Chantal, "as human

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