ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN OCTOBER Saints celebrated on the 10th of October WELCOME! SAINT FRANCIS BORGIA, CONFESSOR Francis Borgia at Isabella of Portugal's coffin- Mariano Salvador Maella Francis, the fourth Duke of Gandia, first shone as an example of upright life at the court of the Emperor Charles V. When he escorted the body of the Empress Isabella to Granada for burial, seeing in her countenance, so horribly changed by corruption, the fate of all mortals, he bound himself by a vow to abandon all things and to serve only the King of kings. HE VOWED TO SERVE ONLY THE KING OF KINGS Therefore, after the death of his wife, Eleanor of Castile, he entered the Society of Jesus . He was chosen by Saint Ignatius as Commissary-General for Spain, and a little later, though against his will, he was selected as the third Prepositor General of the whole Society. Pope Pius V appointed him an associate of Cardinal Allessandrino in an embassy to unite Chr...