Medieval

St. Francis Xavier

1506–1552


Francis Xavier was born at the Castle of Xavier, near Pamplona, in 1506. He studied at Paris, where he met Ignatius Loyola, and as a Jesuit missionary worked in India and the East. He died in 1552.

The hymn O Deus, ego amo Te is attributed to him. It is given here in John Brownlie's English version of 1896.

  1. O God, I love Thee, not alone

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