ST. XAVIER: MISSIONARY METHODS, IMPACT AND ASSESSMENT OF HIS WORK
ST. XAVIER: MISSIONARY METHODS, IMPACT AND ASSESSMENT OF HIS WORK Photo by max pruvost on Unsplash 1. INTRODUCTION This paper discusses on Francis Xavier about his early life and his missionary methods. Under that will see the establishing of school and college, friendly with political leaders and reforming the Christian in Goa. After that see how it impacts in the life of people, and finally finished with assessment and conclusion. 2. FRANCIS XAVIER: EARLY LIFE St. Francis Xavier , Spanish San Francisco Xavier, was born on 7 th April 1506 in a noble Spanish family in Navarre was related to the royal family. As he grow up, at the age of eighteen years his father sent him to study philosophy in the University of Paris. [1] Ignatius Loyola was a soldier; he was unfit to continue his profession because of the lost of his health in the war. Xavier has encountered God through Loyola, who became is one of the Spiritual guides to many. In Paris i...