I
have not stopped since the day I arrived. I conscientiously made the
rounds of the villages. I bathed in the sacred waters all the
children who had not yet been baptized. This means that I have
purified a very large number of children so young that, as the saying
goes, they could not tell their right hand from their left. The older
children would not let me say my Office or eat or sleep until I
taught them one prayer or another. Then I began to understand: "The
kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these."
–-
Saint Francis Xavier
