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St. Francis Xavier,
Patron of the College
 The
Indian mission of the Jesuits lies at the very origin of their
Order. It is to India that Ignatius of Loyola, the Founder of
the Society of Jesus, sent his greatest son, Francis Xavier.
Xavier was a zealous “missionary on the move”. He constantly
traveled along the Fishery Coast, then west, into Marava
country, then to Mylapore (present day Chennai).
He sailed to Malacca and Japan in 1549 where he spent two and a
half years. In April 1552 he sailed to China via Malacca from
Goa, never to return alive. He died at Sancian, a small island
facing China, on the 2nd of December of the same year. Wherever
he went, he plunged himself into charitable and pastoral work
preaching the message of God’s love to people. He worked in
India for ten years, from 1542 to 1552, it is called the
Xaverian decade.
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Jesuits
and Education in India
The Society of Jesus, a Christian Religious Order founded by Saint Ignatius of Loyola in 1540, has been active in the field of education throughout the world since its origin. In the world, the Jesuits
are responsible for 3,897 Educational Institutions in 90 countries. These Jesuit Educational Institutions engage the efforts of approximately
1,34,303 teachers, educating approximately 29,28,806 students.
In India The Society of Jesus
has founded 118 Primary & Middle Schools, 149 High Schools, 41
University Colleges, 22 Technical Institutes and 11 Business
Administrations Institutes with 11,225 teachers, educating
3,24,538 students, belonging to every social class, community
and linguistic group. This Institutions are part of the Catholic
Church's effort to share in the country's educational
undertaking.
The Jesuit College aims at
the integral, personal formation of youth, to accomplish this,
special efforts are made:
To help the students to
become mature, spiritually-oriented men and women of character;
To encourage them
continuously to strive after excellence in every fields;
To value and
judiciously use their freedom;
To be clear and firm on
principals and courageous in action;
To be unselfish in the
service of their fellowmen; and
To become agents of
needed social change in their country.
The Jesuit College 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.
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Jesuit Education Association of India
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