Feasts, Obligatory and Optional Memorials of Saints
- Francis Xavier, priest
- Lucius
- Claudius, Hilaria & Companions, martyrs
- Cassian, martyr
- Sola
Francis Xavier: (died 1552 A.D. at age 46). Francis Xavier was from Navarre and was born of a noble Basque family. He then went to Paris in 1525 A.D. to study there. In the University of Paris, he met Ignatius of Loyola, and became one of the founding Jesuits of the Society of Jesus. After his ordination, Francis Xavier went as a missionary to Asia and preached in India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Japan. While waiting for a boat to bring him to China, he died of exhaustion and fever on the island of Shangchwan near Canton. He is the patron saint of all foreign missions.
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December 3 Saints in the Byzantine Calendar
- St. Sophonias, Prophet
- Theodulus
The Greek and Russian Orthodox Churches celebrate the feast of St. Sophonias or Zephaniah, a seventh-century B.C. minor prophet who may have been the cousin of the major prophet Jeremiah.
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