Editing Francis Xavier (section)

==Early life==
Francis Xavier was born in the [[Castle of Xavier]], in the [[Kingdom of Navarre]], on 7 April 1506 into an influential noble family. He was the youngest son of Don Juan de Jasso y Atondo, Lord of Idocín, president of the Royal Council of the Kingdom of Navarre, and seneschal of the Castle of Xavier, a doctor in law by the [[University of Bologna]],{{sfn |Brodrick|1952|p=17}} belonging to a prosperous noble family of [[Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port]], later privy counsellor and finance minister to King [[John III of Navarre]].{{sfn|Brodrick|1952|p=18}} 

His mother was Doña María de Azpilcueta y Aznárez, sole heiress to the [[Castle of Xavier]], related to the theologian and philosopher [[Martín de Azpilcueta]].{{sfn |Brodrick|1952|p=16}} His brother Miguel de Jasso, later known as Miguel de Javier, became Lord of Xavier and Idocín at the death of his parents, a direct ancestor of the Counts of Javier. [[Basque language|Basque]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.euskadi.eus/contenidos/informacion/argitalpenak/eu_6092/adjuntos/EEH/FRANTSES/EEH5_FRA.PDF|title=Euskara, la langue des Basques. V. L'euskara, aux temps modernes (1545–1789)]|quote=... Ce qui explique pourquoi le missionraire navarrais désignera l'euskara comme "sa langue naturelle bizcayenne" (1544), terme très étendu à cette époque.}}</ref> and [[Navarro-Aragonese|Romance]]{{efn|Navarro-Aragonese, called Romance at this time was also a language spoken in the surrounding area. Romance languages are the result of the changes suffered by spoken Latin through the centuries. Hispanic Romance languages were born in the North of the Peninsula (Galician, Leonese, Castilian, Navarro-Aragonese, Catalonian).}} were his two [[mother tongue]]s.

In 1512, [[Ferdinand II of Aragon|Ferdinand]], King of [[Crown of Aragon|Aragon]] and regent of [[Crown of Castile|Castile]], invaded Navarre, initiating a [[Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre|war that lasted over 18 years]]. In 1515, Francis's father died when Francis was only nine years old. In 1516, Francis's brothers participated in a failed Navarrese-French attempt to expel the Spanish invaders from the kingdom. The Spanish Governor, [[Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros|Cardinal Cisneros]], confiscated the family lands, demolished the outer wall, the gates, and two towers of the family castle, and filled in the moat. The height of the keep was reduced by half.{{sfn|Sagredo|2006|p=}} Only the family residence inside the castle was left. In 1522, one of Francis's brothers participated with 200 Navarrese nobles in dogged but failed resistance against the Castilian Count of Miranda in Amaiur, [[Baztan (valley)|Baztan]], the last Navarrese territorial position south of the Pyrenees.

In 1525, Francis went to study in Paris at the [[Collège Sainte-Barbe]], [[University of Paris]], where he spent the next eleven years.{{sfn |Brodrick|1952|p=28}} In the early days he acquired some reputation as an athlete{{sfn |Brodrick|1952|p=21}} and a high-jumper.{{sfn |Brodrick|1952|p=33}}

In 1529, Francis shared lodgings with his friend [[Pierre Favre]]. A new student, [[Ignatius of Loyola]], came to room with them.{{sfn |Brodrick|1952|p=40}} At 38, Ignatius was much older than Pierre and Francis, who were both 23 at the time. Ignatius convinced Pierre to become a priest, but was unable to convince Francis, who had aspirations of worldly advancement. At first, Francis regarded the new lodger as a joke and was sarcastic about his efforts to convert students.{{sfn |Brodrick|1952|p=41}} 

When Pierre left their lodgings to visit his family and Ignatius was alone with Francis, he was able to slowly break down Francis's resistance.{{sfn |De Rosa|2006|p=93}} According to most biographies Ignatius is said to have posed the question: "What will it profit a man to gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?"{{sfn|Butler}} However, according to [[James Patrick Broderick|James Broderick]] such method is not characteristic of Ignatius and there is no evidence that he employed it at all.{{sfn|Brodrick|1952|p=41}}

In 1530, Francis received the degree of Master of Arts, and afterwards taught Aristotelian philosophy at the [[Collège de Beauvais]], University of Paris.{{sfn|Brodrick|1952|p=41}}

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File:Castillo javier.jpg|The [[Castle of Xavier|castle of the Xavier family]] was later acquired by the Society of Jesus.
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