Answer: This issue commemorates the first three of the nine Jesuit companions, Pierre Farve, Ignatius of Loyola, and Francis Xavier, linked to the birth of the Society of Jesus. The Society was approved by Pope Paul III in 1540 to serve the Lord and the Church, under the direction of the Roman Pontiff, at a time marked by spiritual upheaval.

For many years in Paris, this band of three shared a room, a common purse, and common purpose, yet while Ignatius and Xavier were sainted, Favre remains humbly ‘blessed’.

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'Jubilees of Saints Ignatius, Xavier and Farve'


Blessed Pierre Farve
St Ignatius Loyola
St Francis Xavier
1322-1324 (2006)