FRANCIS OF TOULOUSE. - A Capuchin preacher of the ancient province of Toulouse, he became a religious on 14 May 1628, and died at Toulouse on 26 April 1678.

He gathered his experience as superior of the mission among the heretics of the Cévennes region into the manual Jésus Christ ou le parfait missionnaire (Paris 1662) on the organization and method of missions, especially among the heretics of his own country, and on the moral and doctrinal qualities of missionaries. A valued document of his preaching is Le missionnaire apostolique ou sermons utiles à ceux qui s'emploient aux missions (12 vols., Paris 1666-82; 3rd ed., 12 vols., ibid. 1676-1882), of which some Sermons choisis were edited by P. Migne, Orateurs sacrés (X, Paris 1884, cols. 891-1134; XI, ibid. 1884, cols. 9-900). He also published, in the field of hagiography: Vie de la néo, mère Jeanne de Lestomac (Toulouse 1671) and La vie et les actions de madame de Liste (ibid. 1672).

Bibliography3 works

BIBL.: Apollinaris a Valentia. Bibliotheca fratrum Min. Capucinorum provinciorum Occitaniae et Aquitaniae, Rome-Nîmes 1894, pp. 72-73; Irénée d'Aulon. Bibliographie des Frères Mineurs Capucins de la province de Toulouse, Toulouse 1928, pp. 12-13; Melchior a Pobladura. Historia generalis Ordinis Min. Capucinorum, part 2, II, Rome 1948, pp. 50, 174.

Ilarino da Milano

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Francis of Toulouse

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