The Cantata of Love: A Verse by Verse Reading of The Song of Songs by Blaise Arminjon, S.J.

Francis de Sales was only seventeen years old in 1584, when he took a course in Paris with Genebrard on the Song of Songs. He was dazzled. “The Song of Songs”, says Henri Bremond, “became his favorite book. No one perhaps has ‘lived’ it as he did.” His Traite de l’amour de Dieu bears witness to this in almost all its pages.

“Read this, see and understand why St. Francis de Sales who is referred to so many times here loved this book.”