Francis xavier brief biography of william shakespeare
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St Francis Xavier &#; Saint of the Day &#; 3rd December
‘In these parts many people do not become Christian because…there is no one to tell them about Christ… I would want to cry out like a madman to…those students in Europe… They should not only study science and gain knowledge, but keep in mind with what intention God has given them their talents. Then they would surely dedicate more attention to their prayer life. They would get to know God more closely and give him a place in their lives. They would learn to listen to what God wants to say to them. They would be able to renounce their personal ambitions and desires, and choose only to live according to God’s desire and choice for them. Then they would exclaim from the bottom of their hearts: “Lord, here I am. Tell me what you want me to do. Send me everywhere you want me to go, even to India.”’
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Who was St Francis Xavier?
Today’s saint is written by Fr Michel Remery in Online With Saints.
Francis was born in Xavier Castle in Navarra, Spain, and had very good prospects for his life. When he studied in Paris, he met Ignatius of Loyola. After much persuasion, Francis joined him as one of the first Jesuits. He became a very powerful missionary with one great desire: he wanted to tell everyone h
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William Shakespeare
, Stratford-upon-Avon , United Kingdom
William Shakespeare was born on April 23, , in Stratford-upon-Avon. The son of John Shakespeare and Mary Arden, he was probably educated at the King Edward VI Grammar School in Stratford, where he learned Latin and a little Greek and read the Roman dramatists. At eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway, a woman seven or eight years his senior. Together they raised two daughters: Susanna, who was born in , and Judith (whose twin brother died in boyhood), born in
Little is known about Shakespeare’s activities between and Robert Greene’s A Groatsworth of Wit alludes to him as an actor and playwright. Shakespeare may have taught at school during this period, but it seems more probable that shortly after he went to London to begin his apprenticeship as an actor. Due to the plague, the London theaters were often closed between June and April During that period, Shakespeare probably had some income from his patron, Henry Wriothesley, earl of Southampton, to whom he dedicated his first two poems, Venus and Adonis () and The Rape of Lucrece (). The former was a long narrative poem depicting the rejection of Venus by Adonis, his death, and the consequent disappearance of beauty from the world. Despite conservative object