Fr. Francis Xavier

It's still Sunday and I have too much time on my hand. Wasn't I supposed to be in church? I don't remember when I was in church last. Maybe it was when I tried to steal the body of Christ for Karlee. I have been trying to remind myself that Jesus Christ doesn't have an F for a middle initial!

Two posts on the same blog in a day? I must be fucking bored! After downloading another Noel Cabangon song, in Ilocano this time, I started typing names of people I haven't seen on Facebook at Google. 

St. Francis Xavier?  I randomly typed names  and Google asked if I meant St. Francis Xavier. I am reminded of a book I once read, about the miraculous remains of St. Francis Xavier. I have  a copy of the book. 

I have just been reading an old blog I posted almost five years ago where I mentioned about starting graduate school at Xavier University in Cagayan de Oro with Renaissance Literarure and Theology. What I never mentioned in my blog was about meeting Francis Xavier himself. I met a living one of course, not the miraculous remains that is still encased in a glass casket. 

Francis Xavier was named or named himself after the saint whose remains miraculously stayed intact after his death. St. Francis Xavier was the Spanish missionary who co-founded the Society of Jesus, Since his death in the 16th century in China, his body has been transported from one place to another for  public viewing. He was never interred.

Catholic pilgrims travel to where his remains lie in state and kiss the casket like they normally do to the statue of Baby Jesus.

I met Francis Xavier after mass one day at the Xavier University campus in Cagayan de Oro City. I am sure he is not the reincarnated saint because St. Francis Xavier never went through Ash Wednesday.

"Thou art dust and unto dust, thou shalt return!"

To me, this meant that the real St. Francis Xavier never turned into dust and still in his own flesh preserved as a sacred relic at some church in Goa, India.  There's no need for reincarnation.

Funny how I am learning now that this short-term uyab who was then attending the South East Asian Rural Institute (SEARSOLIN) in Cagayan de Oro, is an ordained priest!