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Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis de Sales and Saint Francis Xavier

Although I constantly have had much to do with heretics, I have never once doubted my faith in the least, O bountiful God! Great indeed are the favors by which Thou hast bound me to Thee; but how shall I ever sufficiently thank Thee for having enlightened me with the true faith?
St. Francis de Sales

Recall that you are a daughter of the Catholic Church, and rejoice in the fact that the children of such a Mother will always die a happy death so long as they intend to live according to her laws. At the hour of death, so Saint Teresa says, it is the greatest consolation to die a daughter of Holy Church.
St. Francis de Sales


All who have not believed that Jesus Christ was really the Son of God are doomed. Also all are doomed who see the Sacrament of the Body of Christ and do not believe it is
really the most holy body and blood of Our Lord.
St. Francis of Assisi
 
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI
God, most faithful and true, held the misbelievers and their prayers in abomination, and so willed that their worship, which He utterly rejected, should come to naught.
St. Francis Xavier

All who die without the faith are in Hell.
St. Francis Xavier
ST. FRANCIS XAVIER
O eternal God, Creator of all things, remember that the souls of infidels have been created by Thee after Thine own image and likeness. Behold, Lord, how to the dishonor of Thy name, Hell is peopled with them! Permit not, I beseech Thee, O Lord, that Thy Son be any longer held in contempt by these infidels; but, appeased by the prayers of Thy chosen saints of the Church, the most holy Spouse of Thy Son, recall Thy mercy, forget their idolatry and infidelity, and grant that they may at length acknowledge Our Lord Jesus Christ in Whom is our salvation, our life, our resurrection, by Whom we have been saved and set at liberty, and to Whom be all glory for ever and ever. Amen.
St. Francis Xavier

And all of us humbly entreat and beseech everyone within the Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, and all ecclesiastical Orders, priests, deacons, subdeacons, acolytes, exorcists, lectors, porters, and all clerics, all religious men and women, all boys and children, poor and needy, kings and princes, laborers, farmers, servants and masters, all virgins, continent folk and married people, laymen and women, all youths and infants, young men and old, healthy and sick, all small and great, and all peoples, clans, tribes, and tongues, all nations and all men in all the earth who are and who shall be, that we may all of us persevere in the true faith: for otherwise no one can be saved!
St. Francis of Assisi

O eternal God, Creator of all things, remember that the souls of infidels have been created by Thee after Thine own image and likeness. Behold, Lord, how to the dishonor of Thy name, Hell is peopled with them! Permit not, I beseech Thee, O Lord, that Thy Son be any longer held in contempt by these infidels; but, appeased by the prayers of Thy chosen Saints of the Church, the most holy Spouse of Thy Son, recall Thy mercy, forget their idolatry and infidelity, and grant that they may at length acknowledge Our Lord Jesus Christ in Whom is our salvation, our life, our resurrection, by Whom we have been saved and set at liberty, and to Whom be all glory for ever and ever. Amen.
St. Francis Xavier



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