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 ...

All of it — except his right hand. For, in the early 1600s ... The bas relief depicting St Francis Xavier’s missionary work The cart is made using marine plywood for the flat panels and ...

Saint Francis Xavier was born in 1506 in the family castle in the Basque region of northern Spain, the fifth and youngest child of noble, wealthy and pious parents. When he was 19 he left home to ...

some thought his idea was to associate with Saint Francis Xavier, one of the founders of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), to which Pope Francis belonged. However, the Pope clarified that his main ...

The legacy of St. Francis Xavier, a Spanish Jesuit missionary who died four centuries ago, continues shaping generations in the Asian Church, says Indian Cardinal Filipe Neri Ferrao. Ferrao, ...