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New page: '''Saint Francis Xavier''' (1506‒1552) was a Jesuit missionary, styled usually the “Apostle of the Indies,” born, of a noble family, in the north of Spain; a student of Saint...
'''Saint Francis Xavier''' (1506‒1552) was a [[Jesuit]] [[missionary]], styled usually the “Apostle of the Indies,” born, of a noble family, in the north of Spain; a student of Sainte Barbe in Paris, he took to [[philosophy]], became acquainted with [[Ignatius Loyola]], and was associated with him in the formation of the Jesuit Society; was sent in 1541, under sanction of the Pope, by John III. of Portugal to [[Christianize]] [[India]], and arrived at [[Goa]] in [[1542]], from whence he extended his missionary labors to the [[Eastern Archipelago]], [[Ceylon,]] and [[Japan]], in which enterprises they were attended with signal success; on his return to Goa in 1552 he proceeded to organize a mission to [[China]], in which he experienced such opposition and so many difficulties that on his way to carry on his work there he sickened and died; he was buried at Goa; beatified by Paul V. in 1619, and canonized by Gregory XV. in 1622 .<ref>{{Nuttall|Xavier, St. Francis}}</ref>
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