###Saint Francis Xavier on Temples and Idols:
“Following the baptisms, the new Christians return to their homes and come back with their wives and families to be in their turn also prepared for baptism. After all have been baptised, I order that everywhere the temples of the false gods be pulled down and idols broken. I know not how to describe in words the joy I feel before the spectacle of pulling down and destroying the idols by the very people who formerly worshipped them.” Xavier did this after the Hindu Raja of Quilon had given him a large grant to build churches!
On baptising and inducting children into Christianity, he wrote in 1543 to the Society of Jesus in Rome: “These children, I trust heartily, by the grace of God, will be much better than their fathers. They show an ardent love for the Divine law, and an extraordinary zeal for learning our holy religion and imparting it to others. Their hatred for idolatry is marvellous. They get into feuds with the heathen about it, and whenever their own parents practise it, they reproach them and come off to tell me at once. Whenever I hear of any act of idolatrous worship, I go to the place with a large band of these children, who very soon load the devil with a greater amount of insult and abuse than he has lately received of honor and worship from their parents, relations, and acquaintances. The children run at the idols, upset them, dash them down, break them to pieces, spit on them, trample on them, kick them about, and in short heap on them every possible outrage."
###Saint Francis Xavier on Brahmins:
In his letters to the Jesuits in Rome, Xavier wrote: “There are in these parts among the pagans a class of men called Brahmins. They are as perverse and wicked a set as can anywhere be found, and to whom applies the Psalm which says: ‘From an unholy race, and wicked and crafty men, deliver me, Lord.’ If it were not for the Brahmins, we should have all the heathens embracing our faith.
Lord Minto, Governor General of India from 1807 to 1812, submitted a Note to his superiors in London when the British Parliament was debating whether missionaries should be permitted in East India Company’s domain under the Charter of 1813. He enclosed with his Note some “propaganda material used by the missionaries” and, referring to one missionary tract in particular, wrote: “The remainder of this tract seems to aim principally at a general massacre of the Brahmanas.” (M. D. David (ed.), Western Colonialism in Asia
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Hey guys, im an international student looking to study in Canada, my main option so far is stfx, it seems like a good university with a nice location and the fact that it doesn't have a lot of students enrolled (around 5k) is also a plus for me. nevertheless, i would love to know what you guys think about stfx. thanks in advance
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Happy birthday, Haku-bro and Haku-chan!
(pity they ain't Demi-Servants yet…)
Saint Francis Xavier himself is quite the interesting character, being one of the first Jesuit missionaries in the world. (Insert Nasu lore about something something Sacrament)
Wikipedia lists his patronages as such:
African missions; Agartala, India; Ahmedabad, India; Alexandria, Louisiana; Apostleship of Prayer; Australia; Bombay, India; Borneo; Cape Town, South Africa; China; Dinajpur, Bangladesh; East Indies; Fathers of the Precious Blood; foreign missions; Freising, Germany; Goa, India; Green Bay, Wisconsin; India; Indianapolis, Indiana; Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan; University of Saint Francis Xavier; Sucre, Bolivia; Joliet, Illinois; Kabankalan, Philippines; Nasugbu, Batangas, Philippines; Alegria, Cebu, Philippines; diocese of Malindi, Kenya; missionaries; Missioners of the Precious Blood; Navarre, Spain; navigators; New Zealand; parish missions; plague epidemics; Propagation of the Faith; Zagreb; Croatia; Malacca; Malaysia; Indonesia; Mongolia; Sri Lanka.
His name is also a Japanese shorthand for saying a Western foreign name. Which means probably that Hakuno and Haku have some non-Japanese roots out there…
Saint Francis Xavier University X-Men (2-1) @ Saint Mary's University Huskies (1-2)
Canadian Interuniversity Sport (Atlantic University Sport)
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Location: Huskies Stadium, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (cap. of 6,000 but expandable to 11,000)
TV:
Watch: None
Stream: Free on official AUStv.ca
Odds: None found.
The Teams' 2013 Season Records:
- 9/7 vs. Mount Allison - W 31-10
- 9/14 @ Concordia (Montreal) - W 35-18
- 9/20 vs. Acadia - L 40-11
- 9/6 vs. Acadia - W 14-11
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- 9/20 @ Mount Allison - L 29-15
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... keep reading on reddit ➡I've been reading a bit on St. Francis Xavier, because of my interest in the Sengoku Period, and i've been reading that if he wasn't the one who converted the most he was pretty close to be the one. But his numbers of converts keep changing from millions to tens of thousands, so i've been wondering if anyone has any idea if he actually was the one on the top of the "rankings" or if there is someone else
###St. Francis XavierSaint Francis Xavier University X-Men (0-0) @ St. Mary's (NS) Saint Mary's University Huskies (0-0)
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I've been reading a bit on St. Francis Xavier, because of my interest in the Sengoku Period, and i've been reading that if he wasn't the one who converted the most he was pretty close to be the one. But his numbers of converts keep changing from millions to tens of thousands, so i've been wondering if anyone has any idea if he actually was the one on the top of the "rankings" or if there is someone else
