1st Reading: Revelation 22:1-7

River of life; healing fruits and the Lamb who is to come

Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the …

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Saints in December

03 December

St Francis Xavier, Priest, Missionary

Born in 1506 in Navarre (Spain); died on this day in 1552 off the coast of China. Francis Xavier met Ignatius of Loyola while both were studying in Paris and …