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A Man of Good Zeal

A Novel Based on the Life of Saint Francis de Sales
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A Man of Good Zeal
A Novel Based on the Life of Saint Francis de Sales
by John Edward Beahn

St. Francis was born in 1567 in Savoy, a duchy of the western Alps whose fortunes were largely shaped by developments in neighbouring France, Switzerland, and Italy. Military and political conflicts there were heightened and complicated by religious tensions between Catholics and Protestants, whose leader John Calvin had settled in nearby Geneva and won a following in some districts of Savoy as well. Francis aristocratic father had great plans to position him for rapid advancement in this turbulent setting: He sent the young man to law school, manoeuvered for his appointment as a senator, and chose a noble heiress as his future wife—but God had other plans.

This book tells the inspiring story of how Francis risked his life to win thousands back to the Catholic faith, transformed the Diocese of Geneva as its bishop, and wrote the spiritual classics that eventually led Rome to name him a Doctor of the Church.

Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 252 pages

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