St Xavier
St Xavier International school situated at Shanthi Nagar near Urban Estate, phase 2, Patiala, founded in the year 1999 has quickly grown to be one of the leading CBSE affiliated schools of Patiala.
The school building constructed on an environment friendly green campus provides a warm and inclusive culture where each child is known, their God-given talents are valued and relationships flourish. The school’s mission is to prepare each student for academic, social and personal success by creating a community of empowered and diverse learners stirring to be globally minded citizens in an atmosphere of natural respect, understanding and trust. Registered with IGBC atmosphere has been given at her to the norms of green building.
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HISTORY
Francis was born on 7th April 1506 to Don Juan De Jassu and Maria De Alpilcueta among the band of seven brothers and sisters. Francis, whose ambition lay rather in becoming a distinguished scholar and doctor of philosophy, or following an ecclesiastical career in his native Navarre (Spain), where his father was the President of the royal council.
But at the famed University of Paris he fell under the spell of St. Ignatius of Loyola, who during two years of companionship never ceased to admonish him: ‘What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, if he suffers the loss of his soul’. These golden words by Ignatius changed him completely and along with St Ignatius and other companions they laid the foundation of the Society of Jesus. At only a day’s notice, Francis set out for God in Indies, in 1542. Francis buried himself learning the local language, nursing the sick, preaching and teaching catechism.
Ten years of missionary labour had taken Francis into over 50 kingdoms, enabling him to win almost a million of souls for God. He succumbed to fever on his way to China on Sancianisland on 3rd December, 1552. In 1553 his body was found incorrupt and fresh. Till date his body is preserved and venerated in BomJesu Basilica at Goa.
St. Francis Xavier was beatified in 1619 and canonized by Pope Gregory XV on 12th March, 1622.
St. Xavier’s International School, Patiala thus aims at making its own contribution towards a transformation of the present-day social condition so that principles of social justice, equality of opportunity, genuine freedom, and respect for religious and moral values, enshrined in the constitution of India, may prevail, and the possibility of living a fully human existence may be available to all.
Perhaps the best-known education in India is imparted by Jesuits. They conduct not less than 52 university colleges, 17 Institutes of Business Administration and 220 high schools spread throughout the country, almost all of them among its most reputed (for example: St. Xavier’s, Calcutta, Mumbai, Ranchi; Loyola, Chennai, Vijayawada; St. Joseph’s, Bangalore, Trichy; XLRI, Jamshedpur). In them, more than 360,000 students belonging to every religious, linguistic and socio-economic group, receive their education.
No Jesuit education is complete without attention to the development of the moral and intellectual qualities of leadership: love for the country, integrity, human relations, understanding, hard work, organisational ability, cooperation and teamwork, and the power of expression in speech and writing. St. Xavier’s International School Patiala specially focuses on nurturing the students in the way that they should be framed into the responsible citizens first and definitely we believe a dedicated, responsible and ethical persons will get the success on their own.