Word: xavier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mihi animas [give me souls]," was the prayer of bearded, stern-faced St. Francis Xavier, greatest missionary of the Roman Catholic Church since Apostolic times. One of the first Jesuits, who helped St. Ignatius Loyola found the order, Francis Xavier journeyed to India .and then to the Far East in his historic quest for converts. On Aug. 15, 1549, the astonished farmers and fishermen of Japan first saw his black-clad figure. For more than two years thereafter, Francis Xavier moved tirelessly among the Japanese, of whom he wrote: "These people are the delight of my soul." He made hundreds...
Hymns and Shinja. Last week, the soul of St. Francis Xavier-and part of his body-were again at work on the island of Japan. To celebrate the 400th anniversary of Xavier's landing, a party of 75 foreign notables, including bishops, priests and laymen, had come bearing with them St. Francis Xavier's right forearm in a gold, glass-paneled reliquary. Scheduled to visit most of Japan's major cities, the pilgrims were making a 17-day tour that will end next week with a Pontifical High Mass in Tokyo's Meiji Stadium...
Tangible Reminder. The right arm of St. Francis Xavier, flown from Rome by the Jesuit Order for the occasion, was severed at the elbow in 1614 and brought to Rome as a relic. The saint's body rests on the tiny Portuguese-Indian island of Goa, which had been his mission headquarters. It is exposed for public veneration once every ten years...
...emotional Japanese, St. Francis' arm was something more than a reminder. Cried one white-haired man in Nagasaki, a Japanese Catholic center, as he stood, rosary in hand, to watch the procession go by: "We have seen the second coming of St. Francis Xavier...
Married. Francis X. (for Xavier) Shields, 38, No. 1 ranking U.S. tennis player in 1933 and onetime Davis Cupper (1934); and Katharine Mortimer Biddle, 26, Manhattan socialite; he for the third time, she for the second; in Manhattan...