SALESIAN LITERATURE

Table of Contents

Preface to the English Edition

Introduction to the French Edition

Foreword

Volume / Part II:

The Return of Catholicism to Savoy

Chapter 1: The Great Project

I: The Difficult Choice

The Journey that never was

Farewell to Padua

A Crisis of Conscience

Hesitation and Reluctance

A Possible Provostship

Called to the Bar in Chambery

His Decision

Provost of Geneva

II: The Great Project

"The Most Sublime Service"

The First Sermon

The Provost and his Chapter

A Holy War

III: Personal Example

The Man of Study and Prayer

Public Prayer

His Mass

From Love to Justice

IV: Spiritual Weapons

A Confessor Who Converts

Preaching the gospel

The Objective of Apostolic Preaching

Prayer Camps

The Movement Spreads

The Triangulation of Forces

An Attempt to Divide

The Movement Spreads

The Triangulation of Forces

An Attempt to Divide

Chapter 2: The Pioneer of Catholicism in Chablais

The Political Contingencies

Francis de Sales in Chablais

Conditions Prevailing in Chablais

The Clash in Thonon

His Obstination

Apostolate by Personal Contact

Funus Triplex—The Triple Bond

Dialectical Preaching

Written Controversy

Oral Controversy

Pierre Poncet's Conversion

The Mission in Jeopardy

The Savoyard Imbroglio

The Provost in the Storm

A Wider and More Promising Gateway

III: The Heart of the Debate

Scandal used as an Objection

Scandal and Holiness

The Body of the Catholic Arguments

Peter's Successor

“Papistic Idolatry"

The Role of Bishops

Sacramentality and Man's Ministerial Mediation

The Import of the Memorial

IV: Initial Conversions

Viret's Retreat

A small Parish

Avully's Abjuration

Chablais Impressed

The Political Impact

Agitation in Thonon

V: Journey to Turin and Mass in Thonon

With Nuncio Riccardi

The Provost's Plan

The Duel with the Knights

The Laughing Stock of the Huguenots

Mass in Saint-Hippolyte's

Pastor in Thonon

Culture for the Elite

Further Conversions

The Thonon Community

An Outgoing Parish

Chapter 3: The Conquest of Chablais

I: Confrontation and Opposition

Renewal of Hostilities with France (1597)

The Provost's Calendar of Journeys

The Knights of St Lazarus

Bethulia's Water Supply

Dialogue with the Ministers

Polemics with Viret

Father Esprit, The Spitfire

II: The Visits to Beze

The Three Interviews

The Debate in the First Interview

The Discussion in the Second Conversation

The Ultimate Failure of the Talks

III: The Challenge in Annemasse

The Provost's Promotion

The Annemasse Project

The "Interim" in Geneva

The Project of a Conference in Geneva

The Ministers' Attitudes

The Annemasse Forty Hours

Reaction in Geneva

Poster Warfare

The Standard of the Holy Cross

The Bible and the Cross

The Widening Chasm

IV: The Contest with Geneva

The Provost absent from the Battlefield

Father Cherubin in Thonon

A Riotous Advent

Monks vs. Magistrates

Lignaridus' Counter-Attack

Lignaridus' Evasion

V: Great Events in Thonon

The Mission in the Country

Difficulties in Preparing the Forty Hours

The First Forty Hours

Interludes

The Papal Legate's Arrival

The "Forty Hours" Liturgy

VI: The Setback of Protestantism

The Protestant Cult Suppressed in Chablais

Insubordination

Massive Abjurations

VII: The Protestant Reaction

The Ministers' Deficiency

The Resistance of the Authorities in Geneva

The Dramatic Loss of Unity

The Paper War Again

The New Atmosphere as Opposed to the Former

The Apostle of Chablais

Chapter 4: The Battle for Geneva

I: Journey to Rome

The Motives for the Journey

A Case of Conscience

The Itinerary

First Contacts

The Bishop's Requests

A Rampart against Geneva

The Geneva Problem

Initial Results

The Geneva Question

Examination for the Episcopate

Roman Friendships

Francis de Sales and the Oratory

Roma Santa

II: Return to Thonon

Wrangling in Turin

The Bishop and His Coadjutor

Recent Progress of Catholicism in Chablais

The Debate and Its Failure

The Spy Affair

The Difficult Progress

The Critical Moment

III: The Thonon Project

The Basic Situation

The Foundation Stone

Father Cherubin's Grand Idea

The Open Hostel

The Nuncio's Reticence

Gribaldi's Inquiry

The Papal Bull "Redemptoris"

Difficult Beginnings

The Lausanne Bishopric in Thonon

The Lawsuit in Chambery

Success and Setbacks in Chablais

IV: War in Savoy

The King's Victories

The King, The War, Geneva and Bern

The Danger from Bern and Geneva

The Bishop's Appeal to The King

The King's Protection

Des Hayes, Monglat and Sancy

Conferring with Cardinal Aldobrandino in Chambery

The Draillant Affair

Lent in Annecy

Mourning in Sales

V: The Encircling of Geneva

Proposals to Geneva

Finishing Touch to Work in Cbablais

Renewed Project of a Conference in Geneva

The Mission in Gaillard

The "Interim" in Gex

The Bishop's Threefold Objective

The Juridical Conflict with Geneva

Legal Grounds and the Case at Issue

VI: The Papal League

An Attempt against Geneva

The Confraternity League

Broccardus, The Adventurer

The Savoyards in Rome

The Military plan of the Papal League

The Authenticity of the League

St. Francis de Sales and the Papal League

VII: Failure in Paris

At the King's Council

The Fontainebleau Conference

Unrest in France

Biron's Conspiracy and Francis de Sales

The Biron Affair and the Papal League

The Revelations of Broccardus

The Tension between Paris and Rome

The Near Rupture between France and Spain

The Real Cause of the Provost's Failure

Chapter 5: The Reform of the Diocese

I: The Escalade of Geneva

Francis de Sales, Bishop

The Pope and the Escalade

The Bishop of Geneva and the Escalade

Geneva, Free City

II: Painful Beginnings

The Garcia Affair

The Sequestration Affair

The Journey to Turin

The Clash between Canons

III: Re-establishment of Catholicism in Gex

The First Journey (1603)

The Question of Gex Deanery

The Stay in Dijon

The Second Journey to Gex (1604)

Incorporation into the French Clergy (1605)

Further Obstacles (1607-1608)

Challex, Cessy and Peron Affairs

Suggested Exchange of Territory

An alert in Geneva (1611)

Pastorships in Divonne and in Challex

The Prince's Jealousy

Conflict with Royal Commissioners

Complete Restitution of the Pastorships

The Genevese Possessions Upheld

Slow Progress of Catholism in Gex

IV: Pastoral Visits

The Ancient Diocese of Geneva

The More Important Pastoral Visits

V: A Bishop’s Mission

All Things to All Men

The Mountain climbing Bishop

In Communion with the People

The Apostolate among the people

Striking Conversions

Grace Versus Ignorance and Superstition

Qualities of this People

The Power of the Word

VI: Difficulties in Chablais

The State of the Parishes

The Thonon Foundation Under Ducal Tutelage

The House Without a Head

Father Cherubin in Rome

The Jubilee in Thonon (1607)

VII: The Thonon Oratory

The Second Foundation of the Oratory

The Complexity of the Institution

The Knights in the House

The Spirit of the Oratory

The Salesian Constitutions of the Oratory

The 1615 Reform

The Encroaching Claims of the Knights

The Appeal to Berulle

VIII: The Mission and Geneva

The Objectives of the Confraternity

The Confraternity's Progress

Discord Among the Capuchins

The Spiritual Siege of Geneva

The Thonon Arsenal

A Group of Apostates Return

A More Favorable Mood in Geneva

The Du Terrail Affair

Father Cherubin's Flight

A Report on the Mission

The Bishop's Report on Geneva

The Salesian Method

Plans for a discussion in Geneva

The desire for a discussion in Geneva

Father Bonivard's and the Bishop's Plan

Failure of the Project

Death of Father Cherubin

Francis de Sales and Cherubin

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