This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1812 edition. Excerpt: ... CONTENTS OF THE SIXTH BOOK. Attetmpts are made in vain to asperse the reputation of St. Francis of Sales at Rome by calumnies.... He receives fresh marks of esteem and confidence from the Pope....He reforms, in quality of Apostolical commissary, the celebrated Convent of Nuns of Puy d' Orbe.... Great contests between the Archdukes and the clergy of Franche-Comte relative to the salt-pits....St. Francis of Sales receives a brief from his Holiness, who commissions him, in conjunction with the Bishop of Bale, to adjust the difference....He acquits himself of the commission to the satisfaction of both parties....The Archdukes make him magnificent presents....He is named by the Pope to reform the Convent of Nuns of St. Catherine....He continues the visitation of his diocess....He composes the Introduction to a Devout Life....The occasion of this work.... It is received by the public with great applause, and () translated into all the languages of Europe....Advantageous testimony giveu of it by James I. King of Great Britain....A religious person carries his violence so far, as to burn it in the pulpit before a great audience.... The holy prelate suffers this injury with his usual meekness....His sentiments on revenge....Great charities which he bestows on Catholics and on Calvinists....He labours at the reformation of the Abbey of Taloires, and succeeds by his extreme mildness, after encountering many difficulties....He performs the ceremony of the consecration of the celebrated Peter Camus, Bishop of Bellay.... A close intimacy is formed between them, which is terminated only with their lives....Learned and Christian conversations, which they hold together....St. Francis of Sales passes through Geneva at the imminent hazard of his...

Reprint of the original, first published in 1862.