Word: xavier
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Died. The Rev. Francis Xavier Gsell, 87, Alsatian-born Roman Catholic missionary, known as "the bishop with 150 wives" for his campaign against native child-marriage customs in Australia's Northern Territory (he would "buy" young girls, sometimes for as little as $5, and send them off to mission homes); in Sydney...
From St. Francis Xavier, awaiting his lonely death on an island off the China coast in 1552, to Bishop James Walsh, suffering in a Chinese Communist jail in 1960; from young Samuel Miller, dying of fever on a ship homeward bound from Africa in 1818, to Missionary-Pilot Nathanael Saint, sinking under the spears of the Amazon's Auca Indians in 1956, brave men have looked to the great missionary to the Gentiles, himself no stranger to suffering. Paul knew the inside of jails around the Mediterranean. Before he died, almost certainly as a martyr, he was scourged five...
...least responsible." With Douay-eyed insistence, Dakin reports: "Tennessee is really looking for God ... He is searching for pardon for the sinner in the mercy of an all-loving God ... He believes in God ... He is also aware of his blood relationship to St. Francis Xavier...