{"id":24264,"date":"2009-01-24T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-24T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/01\/saint-francis-de-sales\/"},"modified":"2016-08-12T08:53:38","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T12:53:38","slug":"saint-francis-de-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/01\/saint-francis-de-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Francis de Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/St%20Francis%20de%20Sales-thumb-250x333.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0px 0px 20px 20px;\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2009\/01\/St%20Francis%20de%20Sales-thumb-250x333-thumb-250x333.jpg\" alt=\"Thumbnail image for St Francis de Sales.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\">With the Church we pray:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\">O God, Who did will\u00a0that blessed<\/span>\u00a0Francis, Thy Confessor and Bishop, should become all things unto all men for the salvation of their souls, mercifully grant that being filled with the sweetness of Thy love, we may, through the guidance of his counsels and the aid of his merits attain the aid the joys of everlasting life.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622) born in Thorens, Savoy, in France, was a brilliant student and lawyer. At an early age he was nominated Bishop of Geneva and\u00a0later he vigorsly fought Calvinism. Together with Saint Jane Frances de Chantal he founded the Order of the Visitation. A classic book on the spiritual life is de Sales&#8217; <i>Introduction to the Devout Life.<\/i> He died in Lyons and was canonized in 1665. In 1877, Pope Blessed Pius IX proclaimed him Doctor of the Church. Pius XI declared him patron of journalists and other writers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the Church we pray: O God, Who did will\u00a0that blessed\u00a0Francis, Thy Confessor and Bishop, should become all things unto all men for the salvation of their souls, mercifully grant that being filled with the sweetness of Thy love, we may, through the guidance of his counsels and the aid of his merits attain the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/01\/saint-francis-de-sales\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saint Francis de Sales<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2633],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24264"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33821,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24264\/revisions\/33821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}