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Saint Francis Xavier preaching in Goa (1610), by André Reinoso. Francis Xavier left Lisbon on 7 April 1541, his thirty-fifth birthday, along with two other Jesuits and the new viceroy Martim Afonso de Sousa, on board the Santiago. [41] As he departed, Francis was given a brief from the pope appointing him apostolic nuncio to the East. [35]
Saint Francis Xavier led an extensive mission into Asia, mainly the Portuguese Empire in the East, and was influential in evangelisation work, most notably in early modern India. He was extensively involved in the missionary activity in Portuguese India .
Painting showing Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier taking leave of John III of Portugal before his departure to Goa in 1541, by Avelar Rebelo (1635). Following the Portuguese conquest of Goa by Afonso de Albuquerque in 1510, missionaries of various religious orders (Franciscans, Dominicans, Jesuits, Augustinians, etc.) were sent from Portugal to Goa with the goal of fulfilling the papal bull ...
The Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier requested that the Goa Inquisition be set up in a letter dated 16 May 1546 to King John III of Portugal, in order to deal with false converts to Catholicism. The Inquisition began in Goa in 1560. [17]
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 ...
The Fort of São Francisco Xavier (Portuguese: Forte de São Francisco Xavier), commonly known as the 'Castelo do Queijo' (Cheese Castle), is a fortification situated on the coast of the civil parish of Nevogilde in the northern Portuguese municipality of Porto.
Malacca was also used as an intermediary stop for Jesuit priests heading to Japan and China and included Francis Xavier. [23] The Portuguese also shipped over many Órfãs do Rei to Portuguese colonies overseas in Africa and India, and also to Portuguese Malacca.
Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier taking leave of John III of Portugal before his departure to Goa in 1541, by Avelar Rebelo (1635) The first mass conversions took place among the Brahmins of Divar, and the Kshatriyas of Carambolim. [12]