✦ Remembering Saints

Feast day: October 10

St. Francis Borgia

Priest, Religious · 1510–1572

Patron of —

A Spanish duke and great-grandson of a pope who, stunned by the sight of an empress's decayed body, renounced his rank, joined the new Society of Jesus, and rose to lead it.

Tasked with escorting a dead empress's coffin and seeing her beauty ruined, he vowed never again to serve a master death could take from him — and became a Jesuit.

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