![]() ![]() When Francis was born, the eldest of thirteen children, his mother was only fifteen. On his marriage to the only child of Melchior de Sionnaz, who brought as her dowry the Signory of Boisy, he took the name of Boisy. His father, the Seigneur de Nouvelles, was an aristocrat who had served his country well in war and peace. Francis room,” from an old painting on the wall showing the friar of Assisi preaching to the birds and it was this lover of all living creatures whom Francis de Sales was to choose as his patron in later years. The room in which he was born was known as the “St. ![]() SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES, BISHOP, DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH-1567-1622įrancis de Sales was born at the Chateau de Sales in Swiss Savoy on August 21, 1567, and at his baptism in the parish church of Thorens was named Francis Bonaventura, for two greatly loved Franciscan saints.
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