From “Everyday with St Francis de Sales”
St Francis de Sales had a very special veneration for St Sebastian, patron of the castle of Sales. He generally preached there on January 20. Once, referring to the arrows which are the insignia of St Sebastian, he said, ” The bishop’s cross must be like the insignia of this saint, who is represented with piercing arrows all over his body, to announce to all that he is a servant of Jesus Christ.”
Animated by this sentiment, instead of the cape and scapular, he prescribed for his Daughters of the Visitation that they should bear a silver cross on which were the names of Jesus and Mary so that everyone would know the Visitandines belong to Jesus Christ Crucified.
