St. Francis Xavier lived the life of a missionary ... His body was brought to Malacca first, and then to Goa in 1554. Xavier was canonized in 1622. His feast day is Dec. 3. Going back even ...

MUMBAI, India – Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle said Saint Francis Xavier is “an inspiration ... to the Portuguese Catholics in Goa, then in Malacca and Maluku island, proclaiming the Gospel ...

St Francis Xavier, a co-founder of the Society of Jesus ... led Francis to the Malay Archipelago. He preached in Malacca (modern Melaka) and the Spice Islands (Moluccas) before returning to ...

St. Francis Xavier, who responded with enthusiasm to the call to spread God’s love. The pontiff celebrated Mass in the Singapore National Stadium, a national landmark, on the last full day of ...

MUMBAI, India – Pilgrims have flocked to see the relics of St. Francis Xavier in India. Every decade, the relics of the Jesuit saint are exposed in the Indian state of Goa – this year’s ...

two years after Francis Xavier was canonised and a year after Goa got to know about this, the saint’s body was taken in a procession to the chapel of St Francis of Borja in the Bom Jesus church.

St. Francis Xavier lived the life of a missionary ... His body was brought to Malacca first, and then to Goa in 1554. Xavier was canonized in 1622. His feast day is Dec. 3. Going back even ...