On the day of 3 December
The commemoration of Saint Francis Xavier, priest of the Society of Jesus, evangelizer of the Indies, native of Navarre, one of the first companions of Saint Ignatius, who, moved by eagerness to spread the Gospel, zealously proclaimed Christ to innumerable peoples in India, Molucca, other islands, and then Japan; converted many to faith, and died spent by disease and labor in China on the island of Sancian.
