![]() In 1599 he was appointed coadjutor bishop of Geneva and in 1602 residential bishop, based in Annecy, because Geneva was almost entirely Calvinist. In September 1598 more than 3,000 Calvinists returned to the Catholic faith. He dedicated himself to print flyers with doctrinal content, which he pasted on the walls of the houses and circulated among the population, so that Pius XI, on the occasion of the third centenary of his death, named him patron of Catholic journalists. Your lifeĪt the request of his bishop, he initiated with his cousin Louis the re-evangelization of the Chablais, a region located to the south of Lake Geneva, which had turned en masse to Calvinism. He was appointed lawyer of the Senate of Savoy, but decided to follow his priestly vocation, being ordained in 1593. ![]() He studied law at the University of Padua, reaching the degree of Doctor. ![]() ![]() Francis de Sales was born in 1567 in the castle of Sales (Thorens, Savoy), in one of the oldest and noblest families of Savoy. ![]()
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