X-Nico

4 unusual facts about St. Francis Xavier


Danny Buderus

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

George Albert Hartland

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

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.


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.

Agnelo Gustavo Adolfo de Souza, S.F.X. ( 21 January 1869 - 20 November 1927), was a Roman Catholic priest of the Society of the Missionaries of St. Francis Xavier, Pilar who performed missionary work in the province of Goa, then part of Portuguese India.

Basilica of St. Francis Xavier, Dyersville

Because one of the roles of the basilica is to serve as the Pope's church in the event he would visit the area, the church features a special bell, a Tintinnabulum, and umbrella, an Umbraculum.

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.

Coloane Village

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.

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.

Frank P. Treanor

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

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.

Holly Quin-Ankrah

In December 2004 she visited St. Francis Xavier's College, Woolton, Liverpool to promote MEND, a national mobile phone database for stolen or lost equipment.

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.

Keraladeshpuram Temple

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

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.

Silas Wright Titus

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

Society of the Missionaries of St. Francis Xavier, Pilar

Agnel Ashram was started at Bandra, Bombay (now Mumbai) as a common house of the Society, over the years it has expanded to become an important educational organisation.

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.

Vauraddeancho Ixtt

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


see also

Jesuit China missions

According to research by David E. Mungello, from 1552 (i.e. the death of St. Francis Xavier) to 1800, a total of 920 Jesuits participated in the China mission; of whom 314 were Portuguese, and another 130 were French.

Joe Cronin

Cronin died at the age of 77 on September 7, 1984, in Osterville, Massachusetts, and is buried in St. Francis Xavier Cemetery in nearby Centerville.

Piopolis, Illinois

It was known as Auxier Prairie, Dutch Settlement, Mount St. John, St. Francis Xavier, and Belle Prairie before being named Piopolis in 1877 after Pope Pius IX.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Sindhudurg

The diocese covers an area of 21,099 km² of the state Maharashtra, covering the districts Sindhudurg, Ratnagiri and Kolhapur except the St. Francis Xavier parish in Kolhapur City.