Francis Ferdinand

Francis is well into his seventies, looks it, has a mild demeanor and soft speaking style; but his rhetoric is electrifying.

He was a distinguished warrior under Francis I, mortally wounded at the battle of Marignan.

Ferdinand and Isabella confirmed, at Barcelona, the appointment of Columbus, on his return from the new world.

Ferdinand de Soto sailed from Havana with ten ships for the conquest of Florida.

Only the day before he died, he had said this to Father Francis, a young Brazilian monk, to whom he was greatly attached.

The author of the life of St. Francis Xavier, asserts, that "by one sermon he converted ten thousand persons in a desert island."