PRAYER OF SAINT FRANCIS XAVIER

Feast Day, December 3
St. Francis Xavier, second of St. Ignatius Loyola's original seven followers and proved to be perhaps the greatest individual missionary to the heathen since St. Paul the Apostle; born 1506 in Javier Castle in Navarra, Spain, of noble parents; helped form the Company of Jesus (1534) at Paris, was ordained at Venice with St. Ignatius in 1537; in ten brief years from 1542 he did the work of a thousand ordinary missionaries; died 1552 at Sancian when about to enter China, is enshrined at Goa, was beatified 1619, canonized with St. Ignatius 16221 Feast December 3 (d. maj. in Lat. Ch.); by Pope Pius X was named Patron of foreign missions and of Propaganda; is chief Patron of Navarra and of Fathers of the Precious Blood.
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