No scholar has done more than the late Elisabeth C. Stopp to make St. Francis de Sales known, understood, and appreciated in the English-speaking world in the 20th century. This volume collects ten talks and essays by Dr. Stopp delivered or published over the past thirty years. These pieces focus on De Sales' education at the Jesuit College de Clermont in Paris, attitudes to friendship, literary art, ecumenism, reception in Anglican England, and links with other major figures of the Christian tradition, such as Francis of Assisi, Teresa of Avila, and Cardinal Newman.

A Man to Heal Differences: Essays and Talks on St. Frances de Sales

Stopp, Elisabeth

Religion & Spirituality

Saint Joseph's University Press

This volume collects eight essays and talks by the late author of the definitive biography of St. Jane Frances de Chantal, Madame de Chantal: Portrait of a Saint (1962). Among the topics addressed are the co-founding of the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary by Francis de Sales and Jane de Chantal; the changing image of Jane over the period of four centuries; Dr. Stopp s reflections on her Madame de Chantal twenty-five years after its initial publication; and hiddenness as the hallmark of the saint s personality and holiness.

Hidden in God: Essays and Talks on St. Jane Frances de Chantal

O'Reilly, Terence

This volume includes the late Elisabeth Stopp s previously unpublished study of the emblem book of Adrien Gambart (1660-68), an introductory essay by Agnes Guiderdoni-Brusle that updates and supplements Stopp s work, and a facsimile of Gambart s emblem book. This remarkable book was inspired by the life and writings of St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622), and written for the Sisters of the Visitation monastery of Faubourg Saint-Jacques in Paris, where Gambart, a Vincentian priest, served as chaplain for over thirty years.Gambart s emblems visualize many of the literary images that Francis employs in his writings, as well as draws on other popular sources of the emblematic tradition. By means of the emblems, Gambart seeks to identify in a tangible and memorable way for the reader the truly remarkable qualities of Francis s life and the exceptional elements of Salesian spirituality. Such a method, Gambart points out, is in keeping with Francis s own profuse use of images and symbols to communicate his spiritual doctrine as concretely and clearly as possible.Each emblem invites the reader to reflect on an episode from Francis s biography or on one of his particular virtues. One emblem is provided for each of the fifty-two weeks of the year and is explained by an explanatory meditation, which is then followed by seven points for prayer and resolution, one for each day of the week. Gambart called these points Fruits et pratiques (Fruits and Practice), a summary, as it were, of what was to be learned from meditation on the emblematic picture.Stopp s study offers an English translation of the key observations made by Gambart about each of the fifty-two emblems, while the facsimile makes available Gambart s original French text. Moreover, the facsimile is reproduced in color in order to convey the tonal richness of the original emblems.

Adrien Gambart's Emblem Book, 1664: The Life of St. Francis de Sales in Symbols (English and French Edition)

Biographies & Memoirs

Gambart, Adrien

Leaders & Notable People

German Romantics in Context: Selected Essays 1971-86 by Elisabeth Stopp

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

A&C Black

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