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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 Cathedral of St. Francis Xavier [1] [2] (Japanese: 聖フランシスコ・デ・ザビエル司教座聖堂), also called Kawaramachi Church, is a parish of the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church in the city of Kyoto, and cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kyoto [3] in Japan.
The Diocese of Kyoto (Latin: Dioecesis Kyotensis, Japanese: カトリック京都教区) is a diocese of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church located in the city of Kyoto in the ecclesiastical province of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Osaka in Japan.
Located in Kagoshima, Japan, it was named for missionary priest Francis Xavier, who arrived there in August 1549 [3] and founded a Catholic mission. In 1908 the first stone church was built on the site in recognition of their missionary efforts, but was destroyed during World War II , being replaced by a wooden church in 1949 and the present ...
Japanese-Portuguese Bell Inscribed 1570, Nantoyōsō Collection, Japan. Francis Xavier was the first Jesuit to go to Japan as a missionary. [12] In Portuguese Malacca in December 1547, Xavier met a Japanese man from Kagoshima named Anjirō. Anjirō had heard from Xavier in 1545 and had travelled from Kagoshima to Malacca with the purpose of ...
St Francis Xavier Church in Enkhuizen (since 1905), built on the site of a former clandestine church; Huize Manresa retreat center in Venlo (1908–1973), demolished around 2003; Aloysius College in The Hague (1917–1970s) Retraitehuis Schinnen retreat center in Beekdaelen (1923–1969), now a center for asylum seekers
St. Andrew's Cathedral, Tokyo [3] St Andrew's Cathedral in Yokohama [4] St. Matthew's Cathedral in Nagoya [5] Cathedral Church of St. Agnes in Kyoto [6] Kawaguchi Christ Church Cathedral in Osaka [7] St. Michael's Cathedral in Kobe [8] St. Paul's Cathedral in Fukuoka; Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul in Naha [9] St. Matthias' Cathedral in ...
Christianity was introduced to Japan by the Jesuits, such as the Spaniard St. Francis Xavier and the Italian Alessandro Valignano. Portuguese Catholics founded the port of Nagasaki, considered at its founding to be an important Christian center in the Far East, though this distinction is now obsolete.