Francis Xavier

Some also speculate that the name could allude to Francis Xavier, the co-founder of the Society of Jesuis—aka the Jesuits.

Near the back of the St. Francis Xavier cemetery in Centerville, Mass., are the resting places of Eunice and Sargent Shriver.

Meet Father Joe Costantino and the Manhattan parish of St. Francis Xavier.

The author of the life of St. Francis Xavier, asserts, that "by one sermon he converted ten thousand persons in a desert island."

Francis Xavier Talbot died; a French ecclesiastic, and author of some poems.

He there made up his mind to become a Christian and a missionary like Francis Xavier.

Francis Xavier planted the lighted candle firmly between two stones.

St Francis Xavier baptized thousands of children, and then went his way.