Fairfield College Preparatory School - Hearthstone Yearbook (Fairfield, CT)

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Francis X. Mathews Eclifor-in-Chief William T. Keavy Assistant Editor MW LITERARY STAFF Theodore D. Colangelo John F. Coss Barry N. Curran Andrew C. Fazzone Christopher A. Fox John C. Fusaro George C. Gardiner Ronald W. Gorton Hugh M. Humphrey STAFF Daniel P. Jensen Albert V. Karg Dennis P. Larney Emil J. Martin Ronald J. Peck Jerome S. Peeler James J. Quinn Norman P. Rousseau Richard D. Thomson F. David Turchik Donald A. Turlick Richard D. Veltri Robert W. Visokay BUSINESS STAFF Frank J. Rowan fManagerD Kenneth F. Catandella James R. Deer Ernest N. Kaulbach Thomas L. Keaveny John W. Kelly Nicholas M. Serencha

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' I CO QUISTADOR 1 iv fi. m , k - .ef if A W .Jig 9. .ss Q . .. , fs,,.m.M ..k, , .Q K 2 ii This beautiful statue of St. Francis Xavier was given recently in memory of Father Gabriel G. Ryan, S.J., late member of the Fairfield University faculty, by his family. Standing beside the statue are Rev. Francis Xavier Carty, S.J., Principal of Fairfield College-Preparatory School and Francis Xavier Mathews, Editor- in-Chief of the i953 HEARTH- STONE. sisters whom he might lead home to God. Sometimes, when he climbed a banyan tree to preach, five or six thousand people would throng about him. He would pour out his fire and love until his voice had left him, would baptize until he could no longer lift his arm. In one month alone he converted ten thou- sand people in Southern India. Xavier always considered Japan to be his land of promise. When he left, it was not to desert the Japanese, but to plan a new meth- od of attack. Seeing the Japanese reverence for all that was Chinese, he saw that he must storm China to win Japan. China, a whole new empire, beckoned him at the age of forty-six. He was a visionary with a truly great vision-a world for Christ. XAVIER THE SAINT It was on the island of Sancian, across the bay from forbidden China, that Francis awaited a river- man to ferry him to the mainland. When the fever struck him, his mind was still busy with plans. The Great Planner, however, had other designs. On December 3, 1552, his eyes gazing on a crucifix, Xavier died. The light of the Indies went to ioin the Source of all light. Xavier, the man, is dead. His body lies in the Basilica at Goa. But his restless spirit lives on in the thousands of religious who have risen to follow him, in the millions of Catholics in the Indies who live the faith he preached to their fathers, in us, the members of the Universal Church. The shadow of the Saint stretches across the far- reaching sands of the East.

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