Francis Xavier was one of the great missionaries of the church. Born in Spain in 1506, he studied locally before taking up university studies in Paris in 1526, receiving a master’s degree in 1530. While in Parishe met Ignatius Loyola and, with a small group of companions, they bound themselves together for the service of God on August 15th, 1534, the beginning of what would later become the Society of Jesus, or the Jesuits. After further theologi…