The Xaverian Theologate in Asia thanks the Lord for the sending of the first Xaverian Missionaries to Thailand: Fr. Thierry and Fr. Giovanni Matteazzi. May the Lord bless them in their new mission.
How Saint Guido M. Conforti envisaged this event of our family:
"Since my youth I have always felt a strong wish to dedicate myself to the Foreign Missions and since I couldn't satisfy this saint wish of mine at the proper time, for reasons that were out of my will, I dreamed of founding I myself a Seminary for the Emilia, destined to this great purpose...
Here's, therefore, in brief the main ideas of the Project: exclusive objective of this Institute will be the preaching of the Gospel in the non-Christian lands according to the mandate of the Divine Savior to his disciples...
Last, if it were allowed to express a humble request, it will ask preferentially the Missions of Asia, being that land the one with the biggest number of non-Christians, and that was the territory of the sublime apostolate of Saint Francis Xavier, from whom the Seminary that is to be found will take name and inspiration."
(Saint Guido M. Conforti, Letter to Card. Ledochowski, Parma, March 9, 1984.)
