What saints wrote advice for lay people?

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St. Francis deSales – Introduction to the Devout Life
 
St Thomas More wrote quite alot of book’s, I’m unsure if the laity where allways his aim, but they are helpful and worth reading.
 
I don’t know of any Saints who wrote exclusively to Religious.

Likely one of the most prolific modern Saints who wrote to lay people was St. Josemaria Escriva

The podcast is excellent! https://stjosemaria.org/
 
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I love Thomas Merton’s writing.
But he’s not a Canonized Saint.
 
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Servant of God Dorothy Day also wrote for the “average Joe”
 
My answer is “tons and tons”. If they have written something down in the form of letters or an autobiography, it can be construed as advice for lay people. For example, I was just reading today from a book that consists of many short quotations on the spiritual life from the letters and autobiography of St Therese of the Child Jesus. It is not an explicit “advice for lay people” work written by the saint, but indirectly, it is.

Any doctor of the Church would be good to consider reading. There are 35 of them. Francis de Sales is just one of them.
 
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