If
you intend to serve God, prepare your soul for temptation, for it is
an infallible truth that no one is exempt from temptation when he has
truly resolved to serve God.
--
Saint Francis de Sales
Saint
Francis de Sales' patronage:
against deafness; authors; Baker, Oregon; Catholic press; confessors;
deaf people; educators; journalists (proclaimed on 26 April 1923 by
Pope Pius XI); teachers; writers (proclaimed on 26 April 1923 by Pope
Pius XI); diocese of Annecy, France; diocese of Baker, Oregon;
archdiocese of Cincinnati, Ohio; diocese of Columbus, Ohio; diocese
of Houma-Theibodaux, Louisiana; diocese of Keimoes-Upington, South
Africa; diocese of Wilmington, Delaware; Champdepraz, Aosta, Italy;
and the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest.
