St Francis, you are correct, began the Franciscan order (poverty and silence too I believe, and those long brown robes tied at the waist with a rope).
Francis-Xavier was one of Loyola's first followers, hence an early Jesuit. F-X spent most of his years as a missionary in Asia and died in China, I believe.
When the former Archbishop of Buenos Aires was elected Pope, speculation was that, since he was a Jesuit and known to be a particular pastor to the poor of Argentina, he may have had both St Francis and Francis-Xavier in mind in choosing the name of Francis. He has since clarified that it was the saint and not the jesuit he had in mind.
Jesuits, by the way, or known as soldiers and scholars -
mostly the latter these days and the new pope was a professor of mathematics at one time.
Carolyn
From: Jansy <jansy@AETERN.US>
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Sent: Fri, March 15, 2013 11:54:42 AM
Subject: Re: [NABOKV-L] Habemus Papa
Heavens, St. Francis was not a Jesuit. If I'm not
mistaken, he didn't even submit to Rome, but kept an independent
order.
Jansy Mello
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Assunto: [NABOKV-L] Habemus Papa
Pope Francis I - and a Jesuit. One might call VN jesuitical (and I'm sure
his friend Wilson, whose wife Mary McCarthy was extremely Catholic, was
tempted to call him just that). Then there is Charles I of Zembla, with his
middle name Xavier to John Shade's Francis, referring to one of
the first Jesuits.* This is another clue that Kinbote and Shade are in
fact one person.
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