Francis de Sales
Bishop of Geneva, Doctor of the Universal Church;
Patronages
According to Catholic tradition, as recorded in the sources cited for each patronage:
Writers
- Holy See: Rerum Omnium Perturbationem (January 26, 1923), consulted October 4, 2026
Feast day
- January 24 · General Roman Calendar
- January 29 · Traditional date, Butler, Lives of the Saints, 1812
From Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913, “St. Francis de Sales”
born at Thorens, in the Duchy of Savoy, 21 August, 1567;
died at Lyons, 28 December, 1622.
His father, François de Sales de Boisy, and his mother, Françoise de Sionnaz, belonged to old Savoyard aristocratic families.
The future saint was the eldest of six brothers.
His father intended him for the magistracy and sent him at an early age to the colleges of La Roche and Annecy.
From 1583 till 1588 he studied rhetoric and humanities at the college of Clermont, Paris, under the care of the Jesuits.
While there he began a course of theology.
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