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After the Apostle Paul, Francis Xavier was probably the greatest missionary ever to preach the Christian Gospel. In ten years time, the 16th century Jesuit fought his way through the rediscovered countries of the East, often by himself, to make thousands of Asian converts. Thanks in part to the range and speed of his missionary work, however, Xavier's legend has become barnacled with a mass of apocryphal stories, many of them still piously recounted...
...newly published book, St. Francis Xavier (Wicklow Press; $5), is a highly successful attempt to present the saint and his work stripped of the false romanticizing. The author, Father James Brodrick, 61, is a Jesuit himself. An Irishman who lives in England, he has spent most of his life writing readable but impeccably researched books on the history of the Jesuit order. In writing St. Francis Xavier, he has had the advantage of a mass of new material on Xavier's life, most of it compiled by fellow Jesuit scholars...
With Hat & Bell. Francis Xavier came out of his native Basque country of Navarre in 1525, an ambitious young nobleman, headed for studies and pleasure at the University of Paris. He was 23, a tutor and a convivial man about town, when he met his fellow Basque, Ignatius Loyola, who was to be the founder of the Society of Jesus. After that, his life changed. Sixteen years later, a priest and a single-minded evangelist, he left Lisbon on a Portuguese carrack to found the Jesuit missions in Asia. He never returned to Europe...
...spent 37 years sitting on a pillar. Psychiatrist Karl Stern writes about St. Théreèse of Lisieux, a bourgeois French girl who died in 1897, at 24, in a Carmelite cloister. Also included: one Pope, Pius V; two Jesuits, Ignatius Loyola and his missionary follower Francis Xavier; one parish priest, St. Jean Vianney, the 19th century cure...
...Kurds have been to the U.S. and have come back fans of baseball, Xavier Cugat, and the Fifth Avenue girl. But by & large, most Kurds have heard of Americans only vaguely-and over Red radio stations...