Salesian Literature

THE SPIRIT OF ST. FRANCIS DE SALES

Camus, Jean Pierre

    

The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales

By his friend

Jean Pierre Camus (Bishop of Belley)

 London: Burns Oates & Washbourne Ltd., 1925

 

The Spirit of a Saint we may, perhaps, regard as the underlying characteristic which pervades all his thoughts, words, and acts. It is the note which sounds throughout the constant persevering harmony which makes the holiness of his life. Circumstances change. He grows from childhood to boyhood; from youth to manhood. His time of preparation is unnoticed by the world until the moment comes when he is called to a public activity which arrests attention. And essentially he remains the same. In private as in public, in intimate conversation as in writings or discourses, in the direction of individual consciences as in the conduct of matters of wide importance, there is a characteristic note which identifies him, and marks him off apart even from other heroes of sanctity.

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