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St. Francis Xavier was born in the Castle of Xavier in Navarre on April 7, 1506.
St. Francis Xavier was born in the Castle of Xavier in Navarre on April 7, 1506.
==Missionary Life in India==
St. Francis Xavier arrived on the west Coast of Goa on May 6, 1542. Then began a glorious decade of untold millions of conversions from Hinduism to Christianity. Signs and wonders followed St. Francis Xavier's preaching, and he baptized and catechized millions from Goa to Tamil Nadu in India.
==Dreams for Evangelizing China==
"I hope to go there during this year, 1552, and penetrate even to the Emperor himself. China is that sort of kingdom, that if the seed of the Gospel is once sown, it may be propagated far and wide. And moreover, if the Chinese accept the Christian faith, the Japanese would give up the doctrines which the Chinese have taught them. Japan is separated from Liampou (which is a principal town in China) by a distance of about three hundred miles of sea. I am beginning to have great hopes that God will soon provide free entrance to China, not only to our Society, but to religious of all Orders, that a large field may be laid open to pious and holy men of all sorts, in which there may be great room for devotion and zeal, in recalling men who are now lost to the way of truth and salvation. I again and again beg all who have a zeal for the spreading of the Christian faith to help by their holy sacrifices and prayers these poor efforts of mine, that I may throw open an ample field to their pious labours"<ref>Wang, Xiachou. ''Christianity and Imperial Culture: Chinese Christian Apologetics in the Seventeenth Century''"</ref>
==Legacy==
==Legacy==