![]() ![]() Jane de Chantal, whom he had served as spiritual director and with whom in 1610 had co-founded the Order of the Visitation. ![]() The future doctor of the Church and long-time bishop of Geneva had been on the road to Lyons in his capacity as an adviser to Duke Charles Emmanuel I of Savoy and his family during the duke's Christmas tour of the massive Duchy of Savoy, stretching across whole parts of southeastern France, western Italy and southwestern Switzerland.Įxhausted and increasingly ill from the travels and ceaseless toil, de Sales stopped at the convent of the Visitation Sisters at Lyons and there he saw for the last time his beloved spiritual friend, St. ![]() Francis de Sales ended his days in the same way he had lived most of them - having labored to his very last breath for the salvation of souls and the call for everyone to be saints. ![]()
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