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    An Introduction to the Devout Life (French: Introduction à la vie dévote) is a book written by Saint Francis de Sales, the first edition being published...
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    Francis de Sales (category Pages using sidebar with the child parameter)
    writings on the topic of spiritual direction and spiritual formation, particularly the Introduction to the Devout Life and the Treatise on the Love of God...
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    Catholic saints prayed to Saint Joseph, invoked his help and protection and encouraged others to do so. In Introduction to the Devout Life Francis de Sales...
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    converted into joy". Catholic Bishop Francis de Sales, in his 1877 Introduction to the Devout Life, decried mockery as a sin: But as derision or mockery are never...
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    during prayers in his 1609 book, Introduction to the Devout Life. Teresa of Ávila attributed her recovery of health to Saint Joseph and recommended him...
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    Doctor of the Church (Latin: doctor "teacher"), also referred to as Doctor of the Universal Church (Latin: Doctor Ecclesiae Universalis), is a title given...
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  • 1609 in literature (category Years of the 17th century in literature)
    The Two Gates of Salvation William Rowley – A Search for Money St. Francis de Sales – Introduction à la vie dévote (Introduction to the Devout Life)...
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    influencing his Introduction to the Devout Life. John Wesley, the founder of the Methodist movement, listed The Imitation among the works that influenced...
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  • significant end-point of the First Week of his Spiritual Exercises. St. Francis de Sales, in his Introduction to the Devout Life, also addresses General...
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  • John of the Cross Introduction to the Devout Life (1609), by François de Sales The Saints' Everlasting Rest (1650), by Richard Baxter The Rule and Exercises...
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  • Saint John the Baptist in Quiapo district. 1609: Francis de Sales publishes his Introduction to the Devout Life. Later, in 1616, he publishes the Treatise...
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    John Neumann (category Emigrants from the Austrian Empire to the United States)
    church, reading Francis de Sales' Introduction to the Devout Life, and practicing his English and French with the locals. The voyage lasted forty days. Neumann...
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  • Brotherhood of Saint Gregory (category Anglican religious orders established in the 20th century)
    for All the Faithful, and Francis de Sales' Introduction to the Devout Life. The community's motto is "Soli Deo gloria" ("To God alone be the glory")...
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  • Sales (1885). Introduction to the Devout Life (online). Dublin: M. H. Gill and Sons. Saint Francis de Sales (1997) [1616]. Treatise on the Love of God....
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    Communion of the Sick - Catholic Encyclopedia article QUAM SINGULARI - Papal Encyclical St. Francis de Sales (2002). Introduction to the Devout Life. Random...
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    Biographical Dictionary of the Saints, B. Herder, 1924, p. 107 de Sales, St. Francis (2013). The Complete Introduction to the Devout Life. Brewster, Mass.: Paraclete...
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  • from 1602 to 1622; a Doctor of the Church; wrote classic devotional works, e.g., Introduction à la vie dévote (Introduction to the Devout Life) and Traité...
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    by his Introduction to the Devout Life, which he wrote at the request of Henry IV. Cardinal de Bérulle and his disciple de Condren founded the Oratory...
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    researchers claim that he was a devout Muslim. Atatürk's adopted daughter Ülkü Adatepe stated that Atatürk told her he would pray to Allah before every battle...
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    Introduction to the Devout Life, de Sales' recommended devotion to Mary, especially entrusting oneself to her maternal heart. In The Treatise on the Love...
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    and even more to his aunt Mme Duru, a teacher who taught him to read and write, both devout Catholic women. By 1904, Guénon was living as a student in Paris...
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  • The term "historical Jesus" refers to the life and teachings of Jesus as interpreted through critical historical methods, in contrast to what are traditionally...
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  • Francisco Arias (category Articles incorporating a citation from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia with Wikisource reference)
    his Introduction to a Devout Life. Spiritual Profit Treatise on the Rosary Imitation of Our Lady Imitation of Christ Mental Prayer The Use of the Sacraments...
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  • List of Desert Island Discs episodes (1981–1990) (category 1980s in the United Kingdom)
    set, sailing yacht or aeroplane. The choices of book and luxury can sometimes give insight into the guest's life, and the choices of guests between 1981...
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    determination over the following years to write the Mass for Rudolf was not motivated by any devout Catholicism. Although he had been born a Catholic, the form of...
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    were devout Calvinists and raised their children accordingly—he was baptised in the Calvinist Reformed Evangelical Parish of Elberfeld. At the age of...
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  • including devout Catholics, complain that the Catholic Church makes demands that very few Catholics want and are able to satisfy. Before the transition to democracy...
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    warns the Philippians about those Christians who insist that circumcision is necessary for salvation. He testifies that while he once was a devout Pharisee...
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  • fighter in the War of Independence and the Irish Civil War in the 1920s. Although Moran is a well-respected member of his community and a devout Catholic...
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  • on the visit of a police officer, Sergeant Neil Howie, to the isolated Scottish island of Summerisle in search of a missing girl. Howie, a devout Christian...
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