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3 unusual facts about Society of the Missionaries of St. Francis Xavier, Pilar


Fr. Agnel School, New Delhi

The school is named after Fr. Agnelo de Souza (1869 - 1927), a Roman Catholic priest of the Society of the Missionaries of St. Francis Xavier, Pilar who performed missionary work in Goa.

Pilar, Goa

The headquarter of the Missionary Society of St. Francis Xavier is located at Pilar, hence the common name of Pilar Society given to the missionaries of Saint Francis Xavier.

Vauraddeancho Ixtt

The charge later passed on from the diocesan priests to the hands of the Society of Pilar.


Adolfo de Hostos

After his retirement in 1950, the position of Official Historian remained vacant for 43 years, until the Puerto Rico House of Representatives approved in 1993 Senate Concurrent Resolution 14, authored by Sen. Kenneth McClintock, designated Dr. Pilar Barbosa.

Adolfo Lazzarini

Born in Sauce, Corrientes, Lazzarini moved from Argentina to the Paraguayan city of Pilar where he played for local Club America in 1972.

Agnelo de Souza

After much prayer and reflection, de Souza joined the Diocesan Missionary Society of St. Francis Xavier of Pilar on 17 July 1897.

Bread and Roses

The film is about the struggle of two Mexican labourers in Los Angeles, performed by Pilar Padilla and Elpidia Carrillo, for the right to form a union.

Bruno Coutinho

Coutiho studied in Monte De Guirim, who was recognized by coach Paul Raj, he played his 1st game against school rivals ST.Pilar,having scored 3 goals and winning Subroto Mukerjee Cup Football tournament u17.

Carfin Grotto

The "Carfin Grotto", as the shrine is locally referred to, was the brainchild of Father, later Canon, Thomas N. Taylor (died 1963), parish priest of St. Francis Xavier's Parish in the small, mining village of Carfin, which lies two miles east of Motherwell, in the West of Scotland.

Cortijo de Miraflores

Cortijo de Miraflores is a historical building in the Pilar Miraflores neighborhood of Marbella, Spain.

Danny Buderus

In 1995, while attending St. Francis Xavier's College Hamilton, Buderus played for the Australian Schoolboys team.

Elsy del Pilar Cuello

Elsy del Pilar Cuello Calderón (born in Bogotá, 13 June 1959) is a Supreme Court Judge from the Corte Suprema de Justicia of Colombia.

Federico Peña

Cindy Velasquez is a former broadcast executive for Channel 7, KMGH-TV, and Channel 9, KUSA-TV, in Denver, Colorado and has a daughter, Pilar.

Ferrocarril General San Martín

In the metropolitan sector of the City of Buenos Aires there is a diesel commuter branch that operates from the Retiro railway terminus in the city-centre northwest to Palomar, Hurlingham and Pilar.

Fiestas del Pilar

Fiestas del Pilar are an annual festival celebrated in the city of Zaragoza (Spain) in honour of the patron saint of the city, the Virgen del Pilar (Virgin Mary of the Pillar).

Frank P. Treanor

He attended the College of St. Francis Xavier, and the College of the Holy Cross.

George Albert Hartland

He was educated at St. Francis Xavier's College, Liverpool.

George Lynskey

Lynskey had three younger brothers and two sisters and was educated at St. Francis Xavier's College then at the University of Liverpool.

Guadamur

In the late 19th century, being mayor Lorenzo Navas, former colonial governor of Tarlac (Philippines), the old well of the council is replaced by a four-pipe now defunct (in Recesvinto Square) and a trough-pillar that gave name to the Plaza del Pilar.

Isla Umbú

Returning villagers who emigrated in search of better employment alternatives in Asunción, Ciudad del Este, Pilar or Buenos Aires.

Jerome Sala

Born Jerome Sala Ucab on November 29, 1986 in Barangay Bacagay, Pilar, Bohol, Philippines, to Municipal Councilor Jaime Ucab and Ruth Sala.

Joey Mead

Mead was born in the Philippines from a Filipina mother, Josephine del Pilar Mead, and a biological father of Iranian descent.

John M. J. Quinn

John M. J. Quinn (1886–1955) was a Monsignor and from 1951 to 1955 head of St. Francis Xavier's Church in the Bronx, New York, and also head of the Catholic War Veterans.

José and Pilar

It gathers sequences from Madrid to Helsinki to Rio de Janeiro and covers Jose and Pilar's life in Lanzarote, their trips around the world (presenting José's books, signing autographs, making speeches) and their most simple, transient and quotidian moments, as for during the period José writes his "The Elephant's Journey".

José Greco

His most famous partners were La Argentinita (Encarnación López Júlvez) and, after her death, her sister Pilar López.

José María Valverde

That same year he married Pilar Gefaell, with whom he had five children, including Mariana Valverde, a Professor of Criminology at the University of Toronto.

Keraladeshpuram Temple

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

Kingdom of Namayan

The child, named Pasay, inherited the territory known today as the barangays Pio del Pilar and Bangkal (formerly known as barrio Culi-culi), Baclaran, and the modern city which still bears the name of this individual.

La Jagua del Pilar

The name was later changed to La jagua del Pilar to honor Virgin Mary, Our Lady of the Pillar.

Ladislaus Pilars de Pilar

Władysław (also Ladislaus) Baron Pilars de Pilar (Opatówek, March 3, 1874 - Chorzów, November 22, 1952) was a Polish poet and a literature professor at the Warsaw University.

Lisa Law

She and her husband, Tom Law, whom she met in 1965 at a Peter Paul & Mary concert in Berkeley, CA, lived together on a farm in Truchas, New Mexico for 12 years and had four children, Dhana Pilar, Solar Sat, Sunday Peaches & Jesse Lee Rainbow.

Nuestra Señora del Pilar de Imus

Hoping that prayers could help, Bishop Luis Antonio Tagle who was the parish priest of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Pilar in Imus City asked Bobit's co-seminarians to dance during the Karakol for that year, with only one petition in mind- to ask Nana Pilar's intercession for Bobit's healing.

Paraguayan architecture

Among the few examples of works of the period is the council of the city of Pilar.

Pilar Bardem

Born María del Pilar Bardem Muñoz to performers Rafael Bardem and Matilde Muñoz Sampedro in Seville, Bardem began her screen career in 1965.

Pilar Bayona Piano Competition

The Pilar Bayona Piano Competition was a piano competition held in Zaragoza in memory of pianist Pilar Bayona (1897-1979).

Pilar Muñoz

:Pilar Muñoz is also the name of a singer in the group Las Ketchup

Pilar Partido

The provincial subdivision has a population of about 232,000 inhabitants in an area of 352 km², and its capital city is Pilar, which is located around 45km from Buenos Aires.

Pilar, Capiz

The figurine was said to be brought over to the Pacific by a Galleon trading ship from the port of Acapulco, Mexico which was destroyed by British warships during its route in Luzon and was washed off to the coast of Pilar.

It later flourished into a bigger and prosperous town and was renamed after its designated patron saint La Nuestra Señora del Pilar (Our Lady of the Pillar).

Pilar, New Mexico

In February 1793 the region was taken possession of by 20 persons who had received it as a land grant (Cieneguilla Grant) from the King of Spain Charles IV through his military governor in New Mexico, Don Fernando Chacón.

Because the area featured a flat plain with a constant source of water, it was long frequented by the Jicarilla Apache.

Pilar, Sorsogon

With the help of WWF, strict guidelines were developed to protect the sharks.

Silas Wright Titus

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

St. Francis Xavier's Church, Giriz

Francis Xavier's Church, Giriz is a Roman Catholic Church situated in the Giriz Parish in the recently created Vasai Diocese.

St. Francis Xavier's College

Bruce Lee (李小龍), world famous Martial arts instructor, actor, philosopher, film director, screenwriter, and martial arts founder.

St. Paul's Church, Malacca

The chapel was deeded to the Society of Jesus in 1548 by the Bishop of Goa, João Afonso de Albuquerque, with the title deeds received by St. Francis Xavier.

St. Xavier's College, Mapusa, Goa

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

Tebicuary River

Located in the southwestern part of that country, it flows eastwards discharging to Paraguay River about 45 km south of Formosa and 30 km north of Pilar.


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