Intriguing – a new documentary film about St. Francis Xavier.

Fourth Week Films and the New Orleans Province of the Society of Jesus present Xavier, a new PBS-style documentary film on the life of the famed 16th-century Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier. Narrated by Liam Neeson Xavier tells the missionary’s compelling story through dramatizations, interviews, contemporary location shots, paintings and engravings, maps, and most importantly, the extant letters of Xavier.
        The film features interviews with distinguished scholars of Jesuit and Renaissance history including Ingrid Rowland (Notre Dame University), Andrew Ross (University of Edinburgh), Lourdes del Costa (University of Goa, India), Anthony Ucerler, SJ (Jesuit Historical Institute in Rome), Gauvin Bailey (Clark University) and John O’Malley, SJ, (Weston Jesuit School of Theology)

Thanks to reader Matthew who sent along the link and who added that the producers of the film are two Jesuit scholastics from the New Orleans Province. The DVD will be available in August – Catholic school teachers and all religious ed folk take note!