Sales Castle

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The Castle Sales ( French Château de Sales ) was a castle in the Haute-Savoie region . It was located in the municipality of Thorens-Glières and was the first domicile of the de Sales family there before it was replaced by Thorens Castle, 200 meters away .

history

In 1567 St. Francis de Sales was born in Sales Castle . Two years later, his father bought Brens Castle , but the family moved back to Sales Castle in 1573. In 1602, Francis de Sales withdrew to the castle in order to prepare for his ordination as Bishop of Geneva in Thorens in a retreat under the direction of the Jesuit Fournier. On May 29, 1605 the second meeting with Johanna Franziska von Chantal took place there in order to found the community of Salesian Sisters .

The Francis de Sales image in the Sales Chapel

In 1630, during the invasion of Louis XIII. Destroyed in Savoy by order of Cardinal Richelieu after the Count Louis de Sales, the younger brother of Francis de Sales, the royal troops under the command of Gaspard III. de Coligny , Marshal of France , had resisted the handover of Annecy Castle .

In 1672, a chapel in honor of their uncle, who was canonized in 1665, was built on the site of the former castle by three of the saint's nephews , in the place of his birth room. In 1677 it received a baroque altar, which is still preserved today. After the chapel was restored by Count François de Roussy de Sales (1860–1943) , he had an annex added to the chapel, which has since served as the burial place of the de Roussy de Sales family. Its members had previously always been buried in the Sebastian Chapel in Thorens-Glières. The count had their bones transferred from there to the new tomb.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry of Thorens Castle in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French), accessed April 14, 2011.
  2. ↑ Erich Hehberger: Francis de Sales from 1567 to 1622. In memory of his episcopal ordination on December 8, 1602 . 2003, p. 16.
  3. ↑ Herbert Winklehner: The story of a unique friendship. Johanna Franziska von Chantal and Franz von Sales . In: Franz von Sales-Lexikon (online). Accessed April 14, 2011.
  4. ↑ Gilles Carrier-Dalbion: Le Château de Sales ( Memento of the original of November 14, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Accessed April 14, 2011.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.paysdefilliere.com
  5. ^ Francis Trochu: Saint François de Sales. Évêque et prince de Genève, fondateur de la Visitation Sainte-Marie docteur de l'Église (1567-1622) . 1946, p. 24.
  6. ↑ La Chapelle de Sales ( Memento of the original of November 14, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Accessed April 14, 2011.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.paysdefilliere.com

Coordinates: 45 ° 59 ′ 40 ″  N , 6 ° 15 ′ 30 ″  E