Feast of St. Francis Xavier

The Jesuit missionary who traveled farther in the service of his faith than almost anyone in history.

The Feast of St. Francis Xavier on December 3 celebrates one of the most significant missionary figures in Christian history. Francis Xavier (1506-1552) was a co-founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) with St. Ignatius of Loyola and spent the last decade of his life as a missionary in India, Japa