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The Life of St. Francis Xavier; The life and letters of St. Francis Xavier Francis Xavier, Saint, 1506–1552 Coleridge, Henry James, 1822–1893 London: Burns and Oates, (1872) Saint François Xavier (in French) Picture of Shangchuan island. The chapel marks the location of his death; The Miracles of St Francis Xavier by John Hardon, SJ
The Xaverian Brothers or Congregation of St. Francis Xavier are a Roman Catholic religious institute founded by Theodore James Ryken in Bruges, Belgium, in 1839 and named after Saint Francis Xavier. The institute is dedicated to education.
Xavier Catholic College is an independent Roman Catholic co-educational secondary day school, located in the Northern Rivers regional town of Ballina, New South Wales, Australia. A Companion School of the Society of Jesus (or Jesuits), the school was founded in 2000 and is administered by the Catholic Schools Office of the Diocese of Lismore .
The novena ends on 12 March which is the date of the canonisation of St Francis Xavier and St Ignatius. [6] The novena can also be held from 25 November to 3 December (St Francis Xavier’s feast day). [7] However, it can be carried out at any time of the year.
St. Francis (disambiguation) St. Xavier (disambiguation) San Xavier (disambiguation) Xavier (disambiguation) San Javier (disambiguation) "San Franciscu Xavier-a, tuji kudd-i Goeam xara", a Konkani hymn; Forte de São Francisco Xavier de Tabatinga, Brazil
St. Francis Xavier was a Spanish Catholic missionary who travelled around Asia and stayed at Malacca on several occasions between 1545 and 1552. When he died of fever on his way to China in 1552 his body was brought to Malacca, and temporarily buried for nine months in St. Paul's Church, which is today marked by an open grave, before it was transported to Goa, India.
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The church also holds paintings of scenes taken from the life of St. Francis Xavier. The mausoleum, on the top of which is placed the silver casket with the body of St. Francis Xavier (1696), was the gift of Cosimo III de' Medici, the Grand Duke of Tuscany. The mausoleum was designed by the 17th-century Florentine sculptor Giovanni Battista ...