Paris

A place in the history of the Church

The capital of France. Since the Middle Ages it has had a famous university.

What happened here

St. Thomas: he studied in Paris with St. Albert the Great, and later he taught theology there.
St. Francis Xavier: in 1525 he went to study in Paris. There he met St. Ignatius of Loyola.

Source: vatican.va, Benedict XVI, June 2, 2010; Catholic Encyclopedia (1913), “St. Francis Xavier”