The Sign of the Cross - St. Francis de Sales

By St. Francis de Sales

This is a succinct, eloquent defense of the age-old Catholic practice of making the Sign of the Cross. Embodying the zeal of youth and the wisdom of age, St. Francis de Sales traces the origins of the Sign of the Cross back to the Fathers of the Church, to the Apostles before them, and finally to our Lord Himself.

Along with St. Francis’s other lucid explanations of our Catholic Faith and his undaunted love even for those who hated him, this modest book helped restore to their native Catholic faith tens of thousands of heretics who not long before were intent on killing him.

These pages will bring you a better understanding and a renewed love for the Sign of the Cross, that brief and lively exterior prayer by which, from time immemorial, God has been invoked by serious Christians before all of their endeavors.