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18 unusual facts about Francis Xavier


Ashikaga Gakko

The pioneering Roman Catholic missionary, Saint Francis Xavier, noted in 1549 that the Ashikaga School was the largest and most famous university of eastern Japan.

Benigembla

The club belonged to members of the Cooperative Saint Francis Xavier, but the Town Council purchased the site in 2005 with the objective of rehabilitating its interior and restoring its facade.

Chinese Camp, California

Chinese Camp is the location and subject of California Historical Landmark 423 - The Saint Francis Xavier Roman Catholic Church, established in 1849, making it the oldest church in the county.

Coloane Village

In front of the little chapel dedicated to St. Francis Xavier is a monument commemorating a successful Portuguese action against Chinese pirates in 1910.

The chapel also housed a bone from the arm of St. Francis Xavier, who died in 1552 on Sanchuan Island, 50 miles from Macau, before the relic was transferred to Saint Joseph's Seminary and the Sacred Art Museum.

Dale McTavish

Undrafted, McTavish spent two years playing Canadian college hockey with the St. Francis Xavier X-Men before attracting the attention of NHL scouts.

Hakata Bay

Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier arrived in Hakata in 1550, introducing Christianity to Japan.

Keraladeshpuram Temple

It is believed that St. Francis Xavier visited the Keraladeshpuram Temple place in 1546 AD.

Notre-Dame-des-Missions-du-cygne d'Enghien

A series of murals, on the right side of the church building, was painted by Raymond Virac, Lucien Simon, and Robert-Albert Génicot; these celebrate the evangelical work done in Indochina and India by Francis Xavier and that done in Japan by Alphonsus Navarette.

Pre-Portuguese Christianity in Goa

Again, in a letter from Goa dated 20 September 1542, four months after his arrival, Francis Xavier writes that the people of the land were greatly devoted to St Thomas.

Sartell, Minnesota

Saint Francis Xavier Church, Roman Catholic, was founded in 1948, named after Francis Xavier Pierz, a Slovenian missionary to Native Americans in the area, and largely responsible for attracting the large population of Slovenian, Polish, Bohemian, Slovakian and especially German farmers to the area and their annual bouja stand.

Shangchuan Island

The Spanish (Navarre) Jesuit missionary St. Francis Xavier died on the island on December 2, 1552, as he was waiting for a ship to take him to mainland China.

It is known in history for having been the place of death of St. Francis Xavier.

Silas Wright Titus

He belonged to the church of St. Francis Xavier and is buried in St. John's cemetery in New York.

St. Xavier's College, Mapusa, Goa

The annual college dance — or social -is held to celebrate the feast of St. Francis Xavier.

The Secret Memoir of the Missionary

While sailing to Japan to spread Christianity, St. Francis Xavier is beset by recurring nightmares about a dark cave which gets closer with every dream.

Vairocana

During the initial stages of his mission in Japan, the Catholic missionary Francis Xavier was welcomed by the Shingon monks since he used Dainichi, the Japanese name for Vairocana, to designate the Christian God.

Votive statue of the Holy Trinity

The statue consists of a high pedestal with gigantic volutes, where is five statues of the patron saint of plague: Saint Sebastian, Saint Roch, Saint Charles Borromeo, Saint Francis Xavier and Saint Rosalia.


Francesco Saverio de Zelada

On October 2, the Diario di Roma reported he had been given a Meissen group representing the death of St. Francis Xavier, confiscated from the Jesuits.

Jesuit Church, Mannheim

It was completed in 1760 and consecrated to St. Ignatius of Loyola and St. Francis Xavier by the Prince Bishop of Augsburg, Joseph of Hesse-Darmstadt.

Muromachi period

Christianity had an impact on Japan, largely through the efforts of the Jesuits, led first by the Navarrese Saint Francis Xavier (1506–1552), who arrived in Kagoshima in southern Kyūshū in 1549.

Ōtomo clan

The Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier arrived in Japan in 1549, and soon afterwards met with Ōtomo Sōrin, shugo of Bungo and Buzen provinces, who would later be described by Xavier as a "king" and convert to Roman Catholicism in 1578.

Paolo Guidotti

Somewhat of a polymath, he made the preparations for the ornamentation surrounding the canonization in 1622 of Isidore the Laborer, Ignatius of Loyola, Francis Xavier, Filippo Neri, and Saint Teresa.