  The Feast of St. Francis de Sales, Bishop, Patron Saint of Writers is today. There is information on him urlLink here . It is possible, though perhaps unlikely, that this great saint met St. Philip Neri at one point. It is certain that he knew urlLink Blessed Juvenal Ancina, C.O. , one of St. Philip's followers. Also, when Venerable John Henry Newman, C.O., was made a Cardinal, he chose as the motto for his coat-of-arms a phrase coined by St. Francis de Sales: cor ad cor loquitur . "Heart speaks to heart. " 
