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Beneath the church is the tombs of 3 of the priests that served St Francis Xavier's church. The side windows are fitted with stained glass from the early 2000s with the earliest stained glass from the late 1800s placed above the altar depicting the life of St Francis Xavier, commissioned from Vietnam. The organ placed on the choir loft was ...
Voyages of St. Francis Xavier, a Catholic missionary who preached in Malacca. The year 1511 marked the arrival of the Portuguese, led by Admiral Afonso de Albuquerque, and the first Catholic chaplains. The Portuguese captured Malacca for its well-known spice trade. Between 1545 and 1552, St Francis Xavier preached in Malacca. By 1557, Malacca ...
It is the oldest European building east of India. It is located on the summit of St. Paul's Hill. Every year, the church will be used for feast day mass on the first Saturday of December in honour of the feast day of St Francis Xavier. The tradition was started by a priest from the church of St francis Xavier Melaka since 1922.
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. Peter's Church interior. St. Peter's Church (Malay: Gereja St. Peter) is a church in Melaka City, Melaka, Malaysia.It is the oldest functioning Roman Catholic church in Malaysia [1] and the third largest catholic church in Melaka after Church of St. Francis Xavier (Melaka) and St. Theresa's Church (Melaka) in Gajah Berang, a district located north from St Peter's church.
Christ Church, Malacca; Church of St. Francis Xavier (Melaka) Church of Saint Paul, Malacca; S. St. Peter's Church (Melaka) T. Tamil Methodist Church
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
(Currently the Bishop of Malacca Johore Diocese. He was as appointed as Vicar General II in September 2012 by. Sebastian Francis, Fifth Bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Penang, Malaysia, and has the title Monseigneur Bernard Paul) 2005 - October 2010: Fr. Dominic Santhiyagu Fr. Stanley Antoni: 2005-2006 2009-20 June 2010: 16. Fr. Francis Anthony