Photograph of "St. Francis Xavier Church, Kyoto, 1937. This church, the only one in the new Maryknoll missions in Japan, was built some forty years ago by Father Villion of the Paris Foreign Missions with the aid of French benefactors. Since the city has now grown to 1,200,000 souls, there is plenty of opportunity for American benefactors to follow the good example set by the French and help other partners in Kyoto, now using rented dwellings, to possess more worthy tabernacles for the Real Presence. The make-shift use of ordinary dwellings convinces many would-be inquirers into the faith that, after all, Catholicity amounts to very little in America, since American missionaries have evidently little support from home."
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