On Thursday, February 1, 2018, St. John the Apostle Parish was both humbled and blessed to host the relic of St. Francis Xavier. 

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This relic is the right forearm and hand of St. Francis Xavier (1506 - 1552).  It is estimated he baptized more than 100,000 people with this arm.  This relic typically remains in a reliquary in Rome at the Jesuit mother church,

The Church of the Gesu.  The relic rarely leaves Rome, but was here on tour in Canada for the first time.

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Over 1800 people flocked to St. John the Apostle Parish, many from out of town, to have the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to venerate the relic of

St. Francis Xavier, considered by many to be the greatest evangelizer since

St. Paul.

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