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Few among the Church's writers surpass St Francis de Sales in the skilful use of comparisons drawn from nature to illustrate the operations of grace in the spiritual life. This book brings together the choicest of St Francis's spiritual comparisons drawn from plants and flowers, forming a perfect treatise on the devout life, from its first faltering steps to its fulfilment, following the principles set out by the saint in his ascetical writings. Saint Francis comes in from the garden with his hands full of spiritual comparisons from the flowers he has found in bloom - through his words our souls become as vividly conscious of the truths he expounds as our senses would be of the flower of which he speaks, were we to hold its stem in our hands and breathe in its fragrance. This is a book to bring delight to all who love plants, and which will bring profit to all who seek grace. Generously illustrated in this new edition with contemporary plant engravings. 

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St Francis de Sales was born on 21st August 1567 at the family chateau at Thorens, near Annecy in the Savoy region of France. He was the eldest child of devoutly Catholic parents. Educated in Paris and Padua, he was ordained priest in 1593 and in 1602 was consecrated Bishop of Geneva. His goodness, patience and mildness became proverbial. The author of the classic book The Introduction to the Devout Life, he is the patron saint of writers. He died in 1662, and his feast is celebrated on 24th January. Canonized in 1665, St Francis de Sales was proclaimed Doctor of the Universal Church by Pope Pius IX in 1877.

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