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Death by the Pit. When St. Francis Xavier and a small group of Portuguese Jesuits introduced the Japanese to Christianity in 1549, their success was striking: in only a little more than a generation there were between 300,000 and 600,000 Christians in the country, which had only a third of its present 91.6 million population. (About half a million are now Christian.) Buddhism was in decline; people were impressed by the Jesuits' European science and their surprising concern for social morality and the sanctity of human life. The success of the new religion soon convinced Japan...
Hanson Robbins skippered the A-division boat with a crew of John Stotler on Saturday and Xavier Roca yesterday. The B-division Tech dinghy was skippered by George Peter, with Peter van Teel and Edward Lund as crewmen on Saturday and Sunday respectively...
...ANTHONY S. WOODS SJ. Church of St. Francis Xavier New York City
Born. To Rory Calhoun (real name: Francis Timothy Durgin), 36, cinemactor, and Lita Baron, 28, Spanish-born onetime singer for Bandleader Xavier Cugat: their second child, second daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Tami Diane. Weight...
...long after his triumphant return from Danbury Prison to City Hall, the late James Michael Curley was visited, one afternoon, by three earnest young students bearing a heavy granite urn. They introduced themselves as Terence O'Shaughnessy, Denis McGillicuddy, and Patrick Xavier O'Donovan, all of Boston College. Their urn came from a prehistoric monument which had recently been uncovered in Ireland. They had brought it to Mayor Curley, they explained, because it was a discovery worthy of a great...