The Fire of Divine Love

Jean-Pierre de Caussade is known throughout the world as the author of Self-abandonment to Divine Providence. Born in 1675, he joined the Jesuit novitiate at 18 and was ordained priest at 30. The letters and conferences that make up self-abandonment were written mainly when he was spiritual director to the Visitation Sisters at Nancy during the period 1730-42. Very little else is known about his life. He became blind shortly after 1742, and died at the age of 76.