His upbringing had been comfortably middle-class: a Calcutta doctor's son, St Xavier's, Presidency College, studies for the bar in London.

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His love of English had begun in boyhood and was crowned with his long tenure at St Xavier's College in Calcutta, to which his landowning family had come from the Punjab.

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But he ends up so far from this theme that a potentially glorious scene, a sermon on water as a metaphor for love in the mission church of St Xavier del Bac, becomes an aside in a chapter about junk food and barrios.

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There had been speculation that Pope Francis - who was a member of the Jesuit order - had chosen his name in honour of St Francis Xavier, a 16th Century Jesuit missionary in Asia.

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Butler, Xavier and Creighton are expected to join a conference that already includes St.

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