Francis Xavier Ford M.M. was an American bishop of the Catholic Church and a Maryknoll missionary in China. Because of his torture by the Communist Chinese and death in prison in 1952 he is considered a martyr and the cause for his canonization has begun granting him the religious title of Servant of God.
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