Defence of the Standard of the Holy Cross

Name: Defence of the Standard of the Holy Cross
Author: St. Francis de Sales

St. Francis de Sales

This book is in French.

The refutation, in four books, of the minister Antoine Fay’s treatise against the veneration of the Cross, written by St. Francis de Sales in 1597-1600: the honour due to the true Cross, to its image, its miracles and use, and the kind of honour owed to it. The critical text of the Annecy edition (vol. II) in period spelling.

Source: Francis’s text in the original 17th-century spelling, extracted from the PDF page images’ text layer word by word, dropping the right-hand column of marginal synopses and references. The editors’ preface, variants and footnotes, tables and appendices are not included. The four books are one chapter each; the chapter, article and proof headings the text layer preserved are set as second-level headings.