THOUSANDS of Catholics from all over Malaysia and Singapore as well as non-Christians and foreign tourists gathered at St Paul’s Hill in Malacca recently to commemorate the annual feast of St Francis Xavier. This year’s celebration was special because of the revival of a tradition involving a candle-light procession to mark the feast of the Patron of Missionaries.
This tradition was last observed in 1985. The procession, preceded by two illuminated floats decked with flowers and garlands and carrying a large wooden cross and the statue of St Francis Xavier, started from the ruins of the 16th-century Portuguese church at the peak of St Paul's Hill.
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