spirit passed away towards 29 July 1985, their services crowned of the after the tribute cabled by Universal Household out-of Fairness to your 31 July, and that wonderfully summarizes their a great achievement:
Their Enough time Ages UNSTINTING IMPERISHABLE Attributes Just like the Mainstay Believe INDELIBLY INSCRIBED BAHAI ANNALS CARIBBEAN Area. Kindly Communicate All of our Loving SYMPAfHY Household members Family relations. FERVENTLY Praying HOLY SHRINES Advances Their Radiant Soul Throughout DIVINE Worlds.
Xavier was given birth to on the 17 February 1931 inside the Lisbon, A holiday in greece. Their maternal pops is out-of Pangim, India and his dad of Lisbon. Immediately following finishing their degree the guy joined the Portuguese Seller Navy just like the an electrician. During the many years nineteen he was taken to his first Baha’i fulfilling that was kept home away from Mrs. Valeria Nichols (whose ‘When you look at the Memoriam’ looks somewhere else within these users) and you will Skip Charlotte Stirrat, a few People in the us who have been offering because the pioneers when you look at the Portugal, and you can eventually thereafter the guy adopted new Believe. He hitched Hilda Summertimes inside the 1951 in addition they had a couple daughters, Sitarih and you may Stella, who had been created in the Portuguese Guinea, and you can a beneficial young buck, Kim, who had been created inside the Angola.
When you look at the July 1953 Xavier are expose in the Stockholm Worldwide Practise Meeting in which the guy ce regarding groundbreaking and you can offered to open Portuguese Guinea with the Trust. From inside the Sep 1953 the guy and you can Hilda arrived in the main city town, Bissau, in which provider they were
titled Knights out of Baha’u’llah by the Shoghi Effendi. It stayed for the Bissau right until February 1955 after they was indeed declined a software having household and you can presented with an authorities summons ordering these to leave of the 2nd motorboat. During their series regarding official divisions whenever you are trying to receive quarters consent to have Guinea, Xavier talked of Faith and you can was heard by Duarte Vieira HJERNE whom afterwards accepted the brand new Trust from inside the Portugal.
Immediately after purchasing 1 year within the Lisbon along with their infant daughters, Xavier and you may Hilda was able to receive a career within the Africa. They found its way to Luanda, Angola towards 6 June 1956. Right here they inserted Angelica and you may Rodolfo Duna plus the five resident African Baha’is to form the original Regional Religious Set up. This is improperly expected while the activities of your Baha’is were once more below security because of the police. At that time, J oaquim Sampaio turned up regarding Malange, on indoor, to make their t about the Bab and you can recognized which Profile as he gotten the content by the Antonio Francisco Ebo, the initial Angolan Baha’i.
Xavier along with his family left Angola when you look at the August 1960 immediately after a trend of refugees showed up about upcoming Belgian Congo and you may before hostilities bankrupt in Angola. Into A holiday in greece, Xavier, Hilda as well as their three youngsters offered the Trust into the Amadora in which the original Federal Spiritual Installation was formed in 1961 towards much-valued assistance of international leaders. It was discovered at this time one Xavier experienced mitral stenosis and then he underwent openheart functions the very first time.
Circumstances in Luanda was thrilling and once Rodolfo’s departure in order to their local Mozambique one or two Men and women, Harry Ford and you will John Robarts (after appointed a hand of your own Trigger), introduced encouragement and you can love
Your family following gone northern, first in order to Foz create Douro, close Porto. Of 1965 up until 1982 it stayed inside Minas da Panasqueira, close Fundao.
While in the their ten-few days sit he had been less than constant cops analysis
In the 1973, Xavier responded to a pioneering name out-of Australian continent and you will travelled in order to Dili, Portuguese Timor towards the 24 April. He returned to Portugal as a consequence of Australian continent where, inside March 1974, the guy had the Federal Religious System and obtained words out of loving enjoy to possess their services during the Dili. He had been far assisted of the Baha’is and you may restored some of their lost strength just before back into