“What profit would there be for one to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?”
Born into nobility in Navarre, Francis Xavier was a brilliant scholar with aspirations of worldly prestige. However, his life was transformed through the friendship of St. Ignatius of Loyola. He became a founding member of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) and embarked on a journey that would earn him the title of the greatest missionary since St. Paul.