Francis of Toulouse (FRANCESCO DA TOLOSA) - Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. V, p. 957

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

FRANCESCO DA TOLOSA. - A Capuchin preacher of the ancient province of Tolosa, he entered religious life on 14 May 1628; d. at Tolosa on 26 Apr. 1678.

He gathered his experience as superior of the mission among the heretics of the Cévennes region in the manual Jésus Christ ou le parfait missionnaire (Paris 1662), on the organization and method of missions, especially among local heretics, and on the moral and doctrinal qualities of missionaries. An esteemed document of his preaching is Le missionnaire apostolique ou sermoni utiles à ceux qui s'emploient aux missions (12 vols., Paris 1666–82; 3rd ed., 12 vols., ibid. 1676–1882), from which certain Sermons choisis were published by P. Migne in 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 (Tolosa 1671) and La vie et les actions de madame de Liste (ibid. 1672).

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, Tolosa 1928, pp. 12–13; Melchior a Pobladura. Historia generalis Ordinis Min. Capucinorum, part 2, II, Rome 1948, pp. 50, 174.

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