Excerpt from Library of St. Francis De Sales, Vol. 4: Works of This Doctor of the Church Translated Into English; Letters to Persons in Religion
It is as great pleasure to introduce to Catholic readers, and to others, this, the fourth, volume of the Rev. Henry Benedict Mackey's translation of the complete works of St. Francis of Sales. It comprises a very complete selection of the holy Doctor's Letters to "religious" persons. These letters are characterised not only by that depth, sweetness, and attractiveness which we find in all his utterances, but also by matured and powerful instructions, worthy of so great a spiritual director, on the subject of the religious life of persons consecrated to God.
Although St. Francis was not himself a religious, and was indeed occupied during his whole life rather with the care of souls, with anxious missionary work and with the reformation of people of the world, than with monks or nuns, yet it is well known that the religious state shared in his solicitude, his lights and his prayers. It is only necessary to mention the Order of the Visitation for religious women, which he founded, and which still happily flourishes, and to recall to mind the history of the vocation and direction of St. Jane Frances de Chantal.
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