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The many in the United States include the historic St. Francis Xavier Shrine at Warwick, Maryland (founded 1720), and the Basilica of St. Francis Xavier in Dyersville, Iowa. Note also the American educational teaching order, the Xaverian Brothers , and the Mission San Xavier del Bac in Tucson, Arizona (founded in 1692, and known for its Spanish ...
Francis Borgia (1510–1572), Spanish Jesuit priest; third leader of the Jesuits Francis Solanus (1549–1610), Spanish Franciscan missionary to South America Francis Caracciolo (1563–1608), Italian priest who co-founded the Congregation of the Minor Clerics Regular
The Society of Jesus (Latin: Societas Iesu; abbreviation: SJ), also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits (/ ˈ dʒ ɛ ʒ u ɪ t s, ˈ dʒ ɛ zj u-/ JEZH-oo-its, JEZ-ew-; [2] Latin: Iesuitae), [3] is a religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rome.
The mission was named for Francis Xavier, a Christian missionary and co-founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuit Order) in Europe. The original church was built to the north of the present Franciscan church. This northern church or churches served the mission until it was razed during an Apache raid in 1770.
Although the Jesuits tried to establish missions from present-day Florida in 1566 up to present-day Virginia in 1571, the Jesuit missions wouldn't gain a strong foothold in North America until 1632, with the arrival of the Jesuit Paul Le Jeune. Between 1632 and 1650, 46 French Jesuits arrived in North America to preach among the Indians. [1]: 2
Spanish missionary in New Mexico; Association of Franciscan Colleges and Universities; List of ministers general of the Order of Friars Minor; Maria Antonio of Vicenza; List of Franciscan saints; Francis of Assisi The founder of Franciscans. Supply of Franciscan missions in New Mexico; Tomás Manso (1604–1659) Spanish missionary in New Mexico.
Jesuit priests had developed 13 missions on that long and arid peninsula over seven decades. Two Jesuits had died at the hands of Indians in the revolt of 1734–36. [citation needed] In March 1768, Serra and his missionary team boarded a Spanish sloop at San Blas, on Mexico's Pacific coast.
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.