Today’s feast celebrates the life of St. Francis Xavier, the patron saint of missionaries and missions, who led an unlikely life of adventure and heroism, full of unexpected twists and turns ...

celebrated pontifical mass in the Jesuit Church of St. Francis Xavier, in West Sixteenth Street, yesterday morning, and gave to the observance of the feast of St. Francis Xavier an official ...

The 45-day-long decennial exposition of the scared relics of St Xavier began in Goa on November 21. A large number of people gather in Goa on December 3 every year to celebrate the feast of St ...

The feast day of Saint Francis Xavier, celebrated on December 3, is observed not only in Catholic communities but also as a cultural event in regions he touched. Francis Xavier never married or ...

MUMBAI, India – Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle said Saint Francis Xavier is “an inspiration ... and also China and Japan. His feast day is Dec. 3. The Philippines-born Tagle is the Pro-Prefect ...

In a world in which there are “so many people who need Jesus,” St. Francis Xavier is an exemplary model of how to live and share the Gospel with zeal, Pope Francis said Wednesday. The pope ...

Saint Francis Serves Day is set nearest to the Dec. 3 feast day of Saint Francis Xavier, for whom the hospital is named. The hospital’s founder, William K. Warren Sr., was born on the feast day ...

St. Francis Xavier would find that out as he labored to plant Christ in the hearts of the Japanese. On the feast of the Assumption of 1549, his pioneering mission to Japan landed at Kagoshima.

While today, Dec. 3, is the first Sunday of Advent, it is also the feast of St. Francis Xavier, the patron saint of missionaries and missions who led an unlikely life of adventure and heroism ...