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| | Francis Xavier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The feast of St Francis Xavier in Goa | | | Papal Seminary (St. Francis Xavier), Pune, India, the National Seminary for the formation of priests in India is dedicated to the St. Francis Xavier. | | | Xavier was born Francisco de Jaso y Azpilcueta in the Castle of Xavier (modern Spanish Javier, Basque Xabier) near Sangüesa and Pamplona, in Navarre, Spain. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Xavier
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| | Francis Xavier and Asia |
| | Xavier arrived at Kagoshima on August 15, the Feast of the Assumption. | | | Xavier was experiencing at first hand the variety of humankind, of its languages, faiths, cultures and living conditions, as no one maybe had experienced it before him. | | | Xavier was indeed ordained a priest in June 1537, but the companions were prevented from undertaking their pilgrimage due to the war between Venice and the Turks. |
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| | Francis Britto's Brittopia: Laures, "Xavier in Yamaguchi" |
| | Moreover, the Xavier Society of Yamaguchi, headed by Prefectural Governor Tatsuo Tanaka, is preparing the publication of the biography of St. Francis Xavier, whom the city has regarded as its patron saint ever since his arrival in the city in 1549. | | | Xavier himself related a very interesting case of a learned Zen priest, who had studied at the famous Buddhist Academy of Ashikaga. | | | Thereupon Xavier planned a missionary expedition to Japan, with Yajiro and his two companions who had been instructed in the fundamentals of the Christian religion and received into the Church. |
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http://pweb.sophia.ac.jp/~d-mccoy/xavier/laures/laures.html
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| | St. Francis Xavier Catholic School - Private Schools - Brunswick, GA |
| | Saint Francis Xavier Catholic School is a community of dignity and purpose which shares with the family the educational mission of the church. | | | St. Francis Xavier Catholic School is an educational community inspired by the Holy Spirit and the Gospel. | | | Francis Xavier, the only Catholic school in Brunswick, GA, provides a unique, contemporary, and spiritual environment where students are encouraged to make responsible choices within the framework of gospel values. |
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http://yp.bellsouth.com/sites/stfrancisxaviercatholicschool
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| | Patron Saints Index: Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos |
| | Today, Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos invites the members of the Church to deepen their union with Christ in the sacraments of Penance and the Eucharist. | | | The boy wanted to be a priest from an early age, and often claimed he would be another Francis Xavier. | | | One of twelve children born to Mang and Frances Schwarzenbach Seelos; he was named for Saint Francis Xavier. |
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http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/saintf30.htm
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| | Jesuit saints and blesseds |
| | Francis Xavier was the only one of the companions not already committed to a work so Ignatius asked him to go, even though they were the closest friends and the departure meant that they would never see each other again. | | | Francis Xavier (Francisco de Jassu y Javier, 1506-1552), was the first Jesuit missionary and the prototype who inspired many men to enter the Society of Jesus and evangelize far off nations. | | | Xavier went to Rome in April 1538 and began preaching in the French church of St. Louis. |
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http://www.sjweb.info/history/saint_show.cfm?SaintID=51
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| | Historic St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church, Baltimore, Maryland |
| | Francis Xavier Church was dedicated February 21, 1864. | | | Francis Xavier Church moved from Calvert and Pleasant Streets in 1932. | | | Although some of the organizations of St. Francis Church had a short life, there was a consistent effort on the part of the priest and parishioners to better themselves spiritually and educationally. |
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http://www.josephite.com/parish/md/sfx/page2.html
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| | St. Francis Xavier |
| | Xavier, who was placed in the hospital of the incurables, employed the day in dressing the sores of the sick, in making their beds, and serving them in meaner offices, and passed whole nights in watching by them. | | | Francis exercised his functions in the Church of St. Laurence, in Damaso, in which he appeared so active that no one distinguished himself by a more ardent charity or a more edifying zeal. | | | Upon their return to Venice, Xavier was ordained priest upon St. John Baptist's day, in 1537, and they all made vows of chastity and poverty before the pope's nuncio. |
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http://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/STXAVIER.htm
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| | Francis Xavier, Missionary |
| | Francis found to his dismay that the Portuguese settlers and soldiers of the colony were brutal in their treatment of the natives, and that, even aside from this, their manner of life did not commend their nominal faith to the native observer. | | | After five months in Goa, Francis went to the east coast of India, near Sri Lanka (Ceylon), where he preached to a people called the Paravas, with considerable success until the ruler of Jaffna in northern Ceylon became alarmed and suppressed his mission by force. | | | In 1541 Francis sailed with two companions from Portugal to the Portuguese colony of Goa on the west coast of India (arriving in May 1542), where he set about learning the language and writing a catechism for the instruction of converts. |
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| | St. Francis Xavier - Saint of the Day - American Catholic |
| | Francis Xavier, 24 at the time, and living and teaching in Paris, did not heed these words at once. | | | From Venice, where he was ordained priest in 1537, Francis Xavier went on to Lisbon and from there sailed to the East Indies, landing at Goa, on the west coast of India. | | | Francis then made the spiritual exercises under the direction of Ignatius, and in 1534 joined his little community (the infant Society of Jesus). |
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http://www.americancatholic.org/Features/SaintOfDay?id=1218
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| | St. Francis Xavier |
| | Francis Xavier was declared a saint in 1622 along with St. Ignatius of Loyola. | | | Ignatius, seeing in Francis a man whose administrative skill matched his zeal, picked him in 1540 to carry the gospel to India and the Far East. | | | The future St. Ignatius, fired with zeal to promote only the "greater glory of God," persuaded Francis and a few others to vow themselves to this cause in 1534. |
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http://www.stthomasirondequoit.com/SaintsAlive/id790.htm
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| | Malaspina Great Books - St. Francis Xavier (1506-1552) |
| | Francis Xavier is considered the greatest missionary since the time of the Apostles&; and the zeal he displayed, the wonderful miracles he performed, and the great number of souls he brought to the light of true Faith, entitle him to this distinction. | | | Born in the Castle of Xavier near Sanguesa, in Navarre&; Spain, April 7, 1506&; Francis Xavier died on the Island of Sancian near the coast of China&; December 2, 1552. | | | Xavier and Pierre Favre were the first two men to join Ignatius Loyola in forming the Society of Jesus&; better known as the Jesuits. |
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http://www.malaspina.org/home.asp?topic=./search/details&lastpage=./search/results&ID=453
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| | St. Francis Xavier - Patron and Model of the Xaverian Missionaries |
| | Francis Xavier was proclaimed Saint on March 12, 1622, and, together with St. Therese of Lisieux, declared Patron of all Missions, by Pope Pius X in 1904. | | | Francis Xavier was born in Navarre, Spain, on April 7, 1506. | | | Francis wrote that like a crazy man he could scream in the universities of Europe, that millions upon millions are waiting to hear God's World... |
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http://www.xaviermissionaries.org/M_Stories/Xavier.htm
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| | History of Saint Francis Xavier Parish |
| | In 1878, the cornerstone for a new church of St. Francis Xavier was laid. | | | The faith community which became the Church of St. Francis Xavier started in a different place and with a different name. | | | They would become the home of a church and college named for St. Francis Xavier, who was among the first seven Jesuits in the order founded by St. Ignatius Loyola. |
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http://www.rc.net/newyork/stfrancisxavier/history.htm
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| | St. Francis Xavier |
| | One cannot help asking whether St. Francis Xavier himself, were he now in heaven allowed to select, would choose this glorious picture of himself as the one which redounded most to his credit, or as the one he would most bring before men's notice in proof of the manhood that was in him. | | | No, St. Francis Xavier, the Apostle of the East, was not wholly a success; had he been that he would have failed to resemble his Master, the Failure of Calvary. | | | Surely there was ground for the resentment of the authorities against the intrusion of Inigo Loyola; and their judgment that Francis Xavier was, after all, fickle and light-headed, a dreamer of dreams and unreliable, was not without a basis of good evidence. |
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http://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/XAVIER.htm
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| | April 7: Prodigious labors of Francis Xavier |
| | The story of the astonishing Francis Xavier: the Samurai's Lost Treasure Francis became a missionary to the farthest reaches of the world. | | | There he met the king, who begged Francis to visit all his possessions, report on the state of religion, and to do all he could to bring Christianity to the lost. | | | Francis hurried to the young man's side and pleaded with him to forgive the man who had wounded him. |
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http://chi.gospelcom.net/DAILYF/2001/04/daily-04-07-2001.shtml
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| | St. Francis Xavier School |
| | The mission of St. Francis Xavier School is to pass on the rich heritage and Gospel values of the Catholic faith, to assist parents | | | Francis Xavier School, a K-8 rural school of approximately two hundred eighty-five students, is located in Gettysburg, PA. Although a small community, Gettysburg is both a college and a historic town. | | | When they were withdrawn in 1920, the Sisters of Mercy were invited to staff St. Francis Xavier School. |
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http://www.sfxs.org
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| | Christian History - Francis Xavier - 131 Christians Everyone Should Know |
| | While Xavier traveled to Lisbon, Pope Paul III formally recognized his and Ignatius's followers as a religious order: the Society of Jesus, or Jesuits. | | | And while some of Xavier's methods have been criticized (he forced converts to take Portuguese names and dress in Western clothes, approved the persecution of the Eastern Church, and used the Goa government as a missionary tool), he has also earned praise. | | | Convinced that he had the beginnings of a flourishing church, Xavier returned to India for a brief respite. |
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http://www.christianitytoday.com/history/special/131christians/xavier.html
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| | St Francis Xavier and Malacca |
| | That morning as Francis was preaching in the cathedral, he was suddenly wrapped into a profound esctasy until his voice burst forth commanding the people 'to prostrate before the altars, to give thanks to God." | | | Suddenly Xavier became ill with fever and with no proper care available on the desolate isle, was to die like Moses, in sight of the land of promise at the age of 46. | | | He was most generous to Francis and gave him the means of supporting himself during the first stages of the Japanese mission, as well as the means to build a chapel there and gifts to be presented to the king of Japan. |
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| | Feast of St.Francis Xavier |
| | For 9 days the corridors of the Bom Jesus Basilica, were occupied by the people of Salcette who were given the gift of faith by the followers of St.Francis Xavier. | | | Later, thousands of devotees lined up to kiss the relics of St.Francis Xavier at the Basilica of Bom Jesus, beginning at 4 am this morning and will continue till 8 pm. | | | Some say my son or daughter is sick and we invoked the help of St.Francis Xavier for his healing powers and they were granted. |
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http://www.goacom.com/culture/religion/sfx/francis.html
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| | Francis Xavier and Matteo Ricci |
| | When the King of Portugal requested that missionaries be sent to colonies in the Orient, Ignatius of Loyola selected Francis Xavier for the job. | | | Xavier then sent these young people to teach their elders in the Tamil language. | | | Working through Tamil interpreters, Xavier taught young people the basics of the Christian faith: Lord's Prayer, Creed, and Ten Commandments. |
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http://demo.lutherproductions.com/historytutor/basic/modern/people/xavier-ricci.htm
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| | CBC Toronto - Features - Whose Truth? - Father Francis Xavier |
| | Father Francis Xavier is also an ardent supporter of the Tamil Tigers. | | | Father Francis Xavier is a pillar of Toronto's Sri Lankan Tamil community. | | | To Father Francis Xavier, Pirabakaran is a hero, and he's proud to count himself as a follower. |
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http://www.cbc.ca/toronto/features/whose_truth/xavier.html
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| | St. Francis Xavier Catholic School - Private Schools - Brunswick, GA |
| | St. Francis Xavier Catholic School is an educational community inspired by the Holy Spirit and the Gospel. | | | Saint Francis Xavier Catholic School is a community of dignity and purpose which shares with the family the educational mission of the church. | | | Francis Xavier, the only Catholic school in Brunswick, GA, provides a unique, contemporary, and spiritual environment where students are encouraged to make responsible choices within the framework of gospel values. |
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http://yp.bellsouth.com/sites/stfrancisxaviercatholicschool
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| | Welcome - St. Francis Xavier Church |
| | St. Francis Xavier Church is a Chinese Catholic Centre located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. | | | Celeration of the 500th Anniversary of the Birth of St. Francis Xavier | | | Welcome to the St. Francis Xavier Church Web site. |
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http://www.sfxchurch.ca
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| | Saint Francis Xavier - definition of Saint Francis Xavier in Encyclopedia |
| | The feast of St Francis Xavier in Goa (http://www.goacom.com/culture/religion/sfx/francis.html) | | | Francis Xavier is an Anglican and a Catholic saint. | | | Xavier was born Francisco de Jaso y Azpilcueta in the Castle of Xavier (modern Spanish Javier, Basque Xabier) near Sangüesa and Pamplona, in Navarre, Spain. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Saint_Francis_Xavier
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| | CIN - St. Francis Xavier by Kate O'Brien |
| | Francis Xavier was the slowest, the most reluctant, of the famous six young "elected" in Paris to accept Loyola's dream and plan of the Society, and he was the last of the six to submit himself to the test of the Spiritual Exercises. | | | Accidentally Francis Xavier took the gospel to the East. | | | Francis, the youngest of their six children, was born late of this marriage, and when his brothers and sisters were already grown up. |
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http://www.cin.org/xavier1.html
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