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unusual facts about Oblate Sisters of St. Francis de Sales



Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious

Blessed Louis Brisson, main founder of both congregations: Oblate Sisters of St. Francis de Sales and Oblates of St. Francis de Sales.

Louis Brisson

In 1866, he co-founded along with Saint Leonie Aviat, the Oblate Sisters of St. Francis de Sales to provide for their education, and in 1872 the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales for priests and brothers performing similar apostolate work.

Blessed Louis Brisson (23 June 1817 – 2 February 1908) was a Roman Catholic priest who founded the congregations of the Oblate Sisters of St. Francis de Sales and the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales.

Missionaries of St. Francis de Sales

The dioceses of Nagpur and Visakhapatnam have always been governed by prelates belonging to this institute.

In 1845 his offer was accepted by the Propaganda, and the first missionaries of St. Francis de Sales set out for India.

In England the fathers have three missions in the Diocese of Clifton.

MSFS

Missionaries of St. Francis de Sales, a Catholic religious group founded in response to the desire of St. Francis de Sales to found a society of missionary priests.

Paso de las Duranas

Millán; popularly known as "Iglesia de Paso de las Duranas" (Roman Catholic, Oblates of St. Francis de Sales)

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chambéry

Notre-Dame de Myans (antedating the twelfth century), where St. Francis de Sales officiated, and Notre-Dame de l'Aumone at Romilly (thirteenth century), whither Francis I of France went as a pilgrim, are still places of pilgrimage.

Sacred Heart

It was established as a devotion with prayers already formulated and special exercises, found in the writings of Lanspergius (d. 1539) of the Carthusians of Cologne; the Louis of Blois (Blosius, 1566), a Benedictine and Abbot of Liessies in Hainaut, John of Avila (d. 1569) and St. Francis de Sales, the latter belonging to the seventeenth century.


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