The Sign of the Cross: The Fifteen Most Powerful Words in the English Language

Name: The Sign of the Cross: The Fifteen Most Powerful Words in the English Language
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ISBN: 9781933184975

By: Francis de Sales, Christopher Blum

Sophia Institute Press / 2013 / Paperback

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From the young St. Francis de Sales’s heroic efforts to bring Calvinists back to the Faith comes this succinct, eloquent defense of the age-old Catholic practice of making the Sign of the Cross, which sixteenth-century Calvinists denounced as a Popish invention and many Protestants scorn even today.

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Title: The Sign of the Cross: The Fifteen Most Powerful Words in the English Language
By: Francis de Sales, Christopher Blum
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 105
Vendor: Sophia Institute Press
Publication Date: 2013

Dimensions: 6.98 X 5.09 X 0.36 (inches)
Weight: 5 ounces
ISBN: 1933184973
ISBN-13: 9781933184975
Stock No: WW184975

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From the young St. Francis de Sales' heroic efforts to bring Calvinists back to the Faith comes this succinct, eloquent defense of the age-old Catholic practice of making the Sign of the Cross, which 16th century Calvinists denounced as a Popish invention and many Protestants scorn even today.

Along with St. Francis's other lucid explanations of our Catholic Faith and his undaunted love even for those who hated him, this modest book helped restore to their native Catholic faith tens of thousands of heretics who not long before were intent on killing him.

As they did for the Calvinists in St. Francis's day, so in our day these pages will bring you a better understanding and a renewed love the Sign of the Cross, that brief and lively exterior prayer by which, from time immemorial, God has been invoked by serious Christians before all of their endeavors.

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St. Francis de Sales (1567–1622), bishop, Doctor of the Church, and patron of writers, was ordained a priest in 1593. He reconverted the inhabitants of Chablais from Calvinism. He was elected bishop of Geneva in 1602. With Jane Frances Frémyot, Baroness de Chantal, St. Francis founded the Visitation of Holy Mary in Annecy in Savoy. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Lyons, France, on December 28, 1622. St. Francis de Sales was canonized in 1665.