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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.
St Francis Xavier's Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Adelaide, South Australia. It is classified as being a Gothic Revival building in the Early English style. The foundation stone was laid in 1856 and the building was dedicated in 1858. The construction of the tower began in 1887; and was not completed until 1996.
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 ...
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.
St Francis Xavier Church (French: Église Saint-François-Xavier or Église Saint-François-Xavier-des-Missions-étrangères) is a parish Roman Catholic church in the 7th arrondissement of Paris dedicated to Francis Xavier, the patron saint of missions. Built in the late 19th century, It gave its name to the nearby Metro station Saint-François ...
Francis Xavier Indonesia: The Blessed Virgin Mary (Our Lady of Perpetual Help) Joseph Thomas Francis Xavier Iran: Maruthas Joseph Ireland: Patrick [23] [53] Columba [12] Brigid of Kildare [54] Italy: Catherine of Siena [12] Francis of Assisi [12] Maurice Jamaica: The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of the Assumption) George Japan: Peter Baptist [12 ...
The foundation stone of St Francis Xavier’s was laid 19 September 1837 and Queen Victoria sent her personal representative to the ceremony. [2] The church was designed by Charles Day, an architect from Worcester, [1] who also designed St Edmund's Church in Bury St Edmunds for the Jesuits.