VIEW THE IMAGE ------¤¤¤¤¤¤------- Saint Francis de Sales and His Angel -------¤¤¤¤¤¤------- "HE HATH given His Angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways."  ------Psalm 90:11 St. Francis of Sales had a particular devotion to his Guardian Angel; he celebrated the Feast with special care and piety; in spirit he received his blessing in the most important actions of his life; and not only was he devout to his good Angel, but also to the Angels of his friends. He had even a devotion to those of the heretics, his enemies; for he said that in disputing with the Huguenots he exorcised the demons who possessed and obsessed them, and afterward invoked their Angels. When he was absent from his diocese, he recommended it in an especial manner to the care of his holy Angel. He never failed to salute the Angels of the kingdoms, provinces, or parishes which he entered. In the confessional he frequently invoked the Guardian Angel of his penitent, and we may read in his letters how much be recommended to his pious friends devotion to their Guardian Angel. He said that in this world the Angels attend to almost everything, as they are the messengers of God, and invisible; and that to accomplish much for His Divine service and not wish to appear was to serve God in an angelic manner. ----------Fr. F.X. Lasance, citing New Month of the Holy Angels in his MY-PRAYER BOOK. HOME---------------------E-MAIL www.catholictradition.org/Angels/guardians4.htm