⛪ Saint Francis Xavier

⛪ Saint of the Day : 03 December

A young Spanish gentleman, in the dangerous days of the Reformation, was making a name for himself as a Professor of Philosophy in the University of Paris, and had seemingly no higher aim, when St. Ignatius of Loyola won him to heavenly thoughts. After a brief apostolate amongst his countrymen in Rome he was sent by St. Ignatius to the Indies, where for twelve years he was to wear himself out, bearing the Gospel to Hindostan, to Malacca, and to Japan. Thwarted by the jealousy, covetousness, and carelessness of those who should have helped and encouraged him, neither their opposition nor the difficulties of every sort which he encountered could make him slacken his labors for souls. The vast kingdom of China appealed to his charity, and he was resolved to risk his life to force an entry, when God took him to Himself, and on the 2d of December, 1552, he died, like Moses, in sight of the land of promise.

Reflection —Some are specially called to work for souls ; but there is no one who cannot help much in their salvation. Holy example, earnest intercession, the offerings of our actions in their behalf—all this needs only the spirit which animated St. Francis Xavier, the desire to make some return to God.

Patronage

African missions; Agartala, India; Ahmedabad, India; Alexandria, Louisiana; Apostleship of Prayer; Australia; Bombay, India; Borneo; Cape Town, South Africa; China; Dinajpur, Bangladesh; East Indies; Fathers of the Precious Blood; foreign missions; Freising, Germany; Goa India; Green Bay, Wisconsin; India; Indianapolis, Indiana; Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan; Joiliet, Illinois; Kabankalan, Philippines; Nasugbu, Batangas, Philippines; Alegria , Cebu, Philippines; diocese of Malindi, Kenya; missionaries; Missioners of the Precious Blood; Navarre, Spain; navigators; New Zealand; parish missions; plague epidemics; Propagation of the Faith

Source : Pictorial Lives of Saints

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Saints in December

• ⛪ Saint of the Day : December
• ⛪ Saint John of the Cross
• Saint Francis Xavier : Apostle to the East
• ⛪ Saint Nicasius - Archbishop and his Companions Martyrs
• ⛪ Saint Lucy of Syracuse - Virgin Martyr
• ⛪ Saint Finnian of Clonard
• ⛪ Pope Saint Damasus I
• ⛪ Saint Eulalia
• ⛪ Saint John Roberts
• ⛪ Saint Leocadia of Toledo - Virgin Martyr
• ⛪ Feast of the Immaculate Conception
• ⛪ Saint Ambrose of Milan
• ⛪ Saint Nicholas of Myra - Priest Abbot Bishop
• ⛪ St. Bibiana - Virgin, Martyr
• ⛪ Saint Eligius of Noyon
• ⛪ Martyrs of the First Ages - Saint Agricola and Saint Vitalis
• ⛪ Blessed Martin of Saint Nicholas and Melchior of Saint Augustine
• ⛪ Blessed Fr. Alojzy Liguda
• ⛪ Blessed Niels Stenson
• ⛪ Blessed Rafal Chylinsk
• ⛪ Blessed Maria Angela Astorch
• ⛪ Blessed Liduina Meneguzzi - Religious
• ⛪ Saint Judocus, Prince and Hermit
• ⛪ Saint Othilia - Virgin and Abbess

SAINT OF THE DAY

• ⛪ Saint Luigi Scrosoppi of Udine
• ⛪ Saint John Payne: Martyr of England’s Faith
• ⛪ Saint Francis Xavier
• Saint Nicetius of Lyon: A Holy Bishop Who Trusted God
• ⛪ Blessed Zofia Czeska-Maciejowska: Mother of Mercy and Education
• ⛪ Saint Lodovico Pavoni: Apostle of Youth and Work
• ⛪ Blessed Giuseppe Girotti: A Martyr of Charity and Truth
• ⛪ Blessed Karl of Austria
• ⛪ Saint Mary of Egypt: From Sinner to Desert Saint
• ⛪ Saint Hugh of Châteauneuf: A Holy Shepherd of Faith
• ⛪ Saint of the Day : January
• ⛪ Saint of the Day : June
• ⛪ Saint Simon Marie Antoine Just Ranfer De Bretenieres - Priest
• ⛪ Saint Sylvester of Assisi
• ⛪ Saint Conon the Gardener
• ⛪ Saint John of the Cross
• ⛪ Saint Peter of Pappacarbone - Bishop of Policastro
• ⛪ Saint Adrian and Natalia of Nicomedia - Martyrs
• ⛪ Saint Casimir of Poland - Confessor
• ⛪ Saint Luke Casali - Monk & Priest
• ⛪ Saint Angela of the Cross Guerrero y González - Virgin and Foundress
• ⛪ Saint Chad of Mercia
• ⛪ Saint Katharine Drexel - Foundress
• ⛪ Saint Agnes of Bohemia - Princess, Philanthropist and Abbess
• ⛪ Blessed Giovanna Maria Bonomo - Nun, Mystic