The Jubilee of the 2025 Communication world is the first of the 35 Jubilees in this year of hope in the Church. And it begins today in Rome, precisely on the day of the memorial of St. Francis de Sales, to whom Pope Francis dedicated a Letter in December 2022, on the 4th centenary of the death of the bishop and doctor of the Church, who lived in France at the end of the 17th century.
St. Francis de Sales was born in 1567 in the castle of Sales (Thorens, Savoy), in one of the oldest and noblest families of Savoy, where he was a lawyer in the Senate, but decided to follow his priestly vocationHe was ordained in 1593. In 1599 he was bishop of Geneva, based in Annecy, because Geneva was almost entirely Calvinist. In 1604 he met saint Joan Frances Frémyot de Chantal, co-founder with him of the Ordre de la Visitation of Santa Maria. He was beatified in 1662 and canonized in 1665.
"He lived between two centuries, the sixteenth and the seventeenth, he gathered in himself the best of the teachings and cultural achievements of the century that was ending, reconciling the heritage of humanism with the tendency towards the absolute characteristic of the mystical currents", quoted Pope Francis of the catechesis of Benedict XVI, in his Letter of 2022, based in large part on the saint's 'Treatise on the Love of God'.
