Château de Sales

The castle Sales ( French Château de Sales) was a castle in the Haute- Savoie. She was standing in the community Thorens- Glières, where he was the first home of the de Sales family before it was replaced by the 200 meters distant, deeper Castle Thorens.

History

1567 was born in the castle of Sales Sales St. Francis. Two years later his father bought the Brens castle, but already in 1573 the family moved back to the castle sales. 1602 Francis moved to the castle back to prepare to retreat under the guidance of the Jesuit Fournier on his consecration as Bishop of Geneva in Thorens. On May 29, 1605, the second meeting with Jane Frances de Chantal was taking place to establish the community of the Salesian Sisters.

In 1630, the castle during the invasion of Louis XIII was. destroyed in Savoy on behalf 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 made ​​strong resistance at the handover of the Castle Annecy.

1672 a chapel was at the site of the former castle by three nephews of the Holy erected in 1665 in honor of her sainted uncle, and at the place of his birth room. 1677 she received a Baroque altar that is still preserved. After the chapel by Count François de Roussy de Sales (1860-1943) had been restored, he left the chapel Add an extension that has since then served as a burial place of the de Roussy de Sales family. Its members had previously been always buried in the Sebastian chapel in Thorens- Glières. Your bones let the count be transferred from there to the new Grabstätt.