Directory of Saint Francis Xavier Resources

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Information on St. Francis Xavier, Jesuit missionary to the Orient.

Resources in This Category

• A Navarrese in Yamaguchi

  http://pweb.sophia.ac.jp/britto/xavier/vara/vara_e00.html
  Detailed biography of St. Francis Xavier, focusing on his activities in Japan.

• Catholic Encyclopedia: St. Francis Xavier

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06233b.htm
  Biographical article on one of the first Jesuits, and missionary to Asia, who died in 1552.

• Catholic Online: St. Francis Xavier

  http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=423
  Biography.

• Francis Xavier

  http://catholicsaints.info/saint-francis-xavier/
  Illustrated profile.

• Francis Xavier and Other Missionaries to Asia

  http://elvis.rowan.edu/~kilroy/JEK/12/03.html
  The lion's share of this page is devoted to a biographical essay on St. Francis Xavier. With prayer in traditional and contemporary language.

• Kate O'Brien: St. Francis Xavier

  http://www.cin.org/xavier1.html
  Essay on the saint as a model of generosity.

• Reflections on Xavier

  http://pweb.sophia.ac.jp/britto/xavier/eceizae.html
  Illustrated biography of St. Francis Xavier. Includes discussion of variants of his name.

• St. Francis Xavier (1506-1552)

  http://www.cin.org/franxav.html
  Biography.

• St. Francis Xavier at Yamaguchi

  http://pweb.sophia.ac.jp/britto/xavier/laures/laures.html
  Historical essay by the late John Laures, commemorating the 400th anniversary of the arrival of St. Francis Xavier in Japan.

• St. Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies and Japan

  http://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/XAVIER2.htm
  From the book "Lives of Saints," published by John J. Crawley.

• St. Francis Xavier, Confessor, Apostle of the Indies

  http://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/STXAVIER.htm
  Hagiography. From Fr. Alban Butler's Lives of the Saints.

• St. Francis Xavier: Guide to the 21st-Century Missionary

  http://pweb.sophia.ac.jp/britto/xavier/mathy.pdf
  Pamphlet by Francis Mathy, S.J., on Xavier as a model missionary. Illustrated. Includes biographical information and excerpts from the saint's writings. 206K.

• The "Failure" of St. Francis Xavier

  http://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/XAVIER.htm
  From the book "Saints for Sinners," by Alban Goodier.

• Xavier, Francisco de

  http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/WIL_YAK/XAVIER_FRANCISCO_DE_1506_1552_.html
  Detailed biography of the Jesuit missionary. In the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. Some scanner errors.

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• Spanish

 

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