Xavier

Fourth Week Films and the New Orleans Jesuit Province 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).