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St. Xavier's College is a private Catholic university college located in the town of Mapusa (also spelt as Mapuca, Mapusa or Mapsa) in the district of North Goa, India.It is the largest and oldest college north of the Mandovi River in Goa, a state along the west coast of India.
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 ...
Relics of Saint Francis Xavier are also found in the Espirito Santo (Holy Spirit) Church, Margão, [72] in Sanv Fransiku Xavierachi Igorz (Church of St. Francis Xavier), Batpal, Canacona, Goa, [73] and at St. Francis Xavier Chapel, Portais, Panjim.
St. Xavier's High School in 2013. On 4 August 2013, the school's playground also known as Velim Fabrica ground managed to get the attention of the Government of Goa to have it renovated by the Directorate of Sports and Youth Affairs (DSYA) at an estimated cost of ₹ 18 lakh (equivalent to ₹ 31 lakh or US$35,000 in 2023).
A multitude of schools and universities have been named after St. Francis Xavier, a Spanish Roman Catholic saint and co-founder of the Society of Jesus.This page lists notable educational institutions named after St. Xavier, arranged by country and region.
Old Goa contains churches including the Se Cathedral (the seat of the Archbishop of Goa), the Church and Convent of St. Francis of Assisi, the Chapel of Our Lady of the Mount, the Church of St. Caetano and, notably, the Basilica of Bom Jesus which contains the relics of Saint Francis Xavier, who is celebrated every year on 3 December with ...
The Goa Inquisition adapted the directives issued between 1545 and 1563 by the Council of Trent to Goa and other Indian colonies of Portugal. This included attacking Hindu customs, active preaching to increase the number of Christian converts, fighting enemies of Catholic Christians, uprooting behaviours that were deemed to be heresies and ...
Painting of St. Francis Xavier (1506–1552) by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, c. 1670. Raimundo Floriano Feliciano Barreto (16 February 1837 – 23 July 1906) was a gaunkar (landowner) of Loutolim, a village of Goa. He lived at St. Matias, Divar, Goa. Raimundo was the mestre da capela of the Se Cathedral, Goa. He scripted, set to music, and ...