Saint-François-de-Sales Theme Pages

A French bishop, spiritual writer, and Doctor of the Church, St François de Sales is renowned for his gentle approach to spiritual guidance and his emphasis on divine love and personal holiness. 

Co-founded the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary with St Jane Frances de Chantal in 1610.

his stained-glass window in the Église Saint-Joseph at La Bourboule depicts St François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva and Doctor of the Church, whose gentle spirituality and pastoral writings made him one of the most beloved saints of post-Reformation France. Designed and executed by François Taureilles of Clermont-Ferrand, the window belongs to the same early-twentieth-century series as Taureilles’s depictions of the Holy Family and St John the Baptist elsewhere in the church.