Origin: Château de Sales near Thorens Historical identity: Savoyard; Duchy of Savoy Affiliation: Secular clergy / no religious order
Life and work
Savoyard bishop and spiritual writer whose pastoral work emphasized holiness in ordinary life. Although bishop of Geneva, he governed from Annecy and co-founded the Visitation with Jane Frances de Chantal.
Savoyard identity is retained. Present-day France is geographic context, not retroactive French citizenship.
Selected sourced locations; not a complete itinerary. All geographic coordinates are approximate.
Secular bishop and co-founder of the Visitation; not a professed member of the women's order he helped found.
Official modern biographical overview; not contemporary evidence for the saint's travels.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, 1909. Biographical article.
Primary text or author archive. Its presence in the bibliography does not by itself support every map claim.
Oxford University Press, 2011. Recommended reference; consult the relevant entry and its bibliography. Not treated as read evidence for individual seed claims.