The Daughters of St. Francis de Sales

The Daughters of St. Francis de Sales and the Salesian Pentecost

Presenter: Suzanne Toczyski

Presenter Status: Faculty

Department: Modern Languages & Literatures

Funding Source/Sponsor: RSCAP

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Abstract:
In 2018, I was invited by Drs. Wendy Wright (Creighton U.), Joseph Chorpenning (St. Joseph U.) and Joseph Boenzi (Dominican School of Theology, UC-Berkeley) to collaborate on a volume on what has come to be known as the “Salesian Pentecost,” an important movement in the history of Christian spirituality. 

I conducted research in the Paris archives of the Society of the Daughters of St. Francis de Sales, an association founded by Caroline Carré de Malberg and Henri Chaumont in the late nineteenth century and based in the spiritual teachings of St. Francis de Sales. I identified key texts (letters between Carré and Chaumont and other participants in the movement; documents related to spiritual formation; early versions of the society’s rule, etc.), which I then translated for inclusion in The Nineteenth Century Salesian Pentecost, to be published in 2021 in Paulist Press’s Classics of Western Spirituality Series. I have also written the introduction to this section of the volume.