The only reason given was Francis Xavier.” Jesuits in India spread agricultural knowledge, popularised the printing press and ...

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Xavier died on Dec. 3, 1552, on Shangchuan Island in southern China after spreading Christianity for more than two years in Japan. He was canonized by Pope Gregory XV in 1622. In 1927, Pope Pius XI ...

Over two years, he established Christian communities totalling 2,000 converts. Unfortunately, he fell ill and passed away on December 3, 1552, on the island of Sancian (modern Shangchuan), just off ...

He had arrived in Goa in 1542 but travelled extensively in Southeast Asia — as far as Japan and the coast of China. He died on Shangchuan Island off the coast of China and was first buried in ...

St Francis Xavier was first buried on a beach at Shangchuan Island, Taishan in China’s Guangdong. In December 1553, his body was shipped to Goa. It is now in the Basilica of Bom Jesus in Goa, placed ...

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He also was the first Christian missionary to venture into Japan, Borneo, the Maluku Islands, and other areas. Xavier was about to extend his missionary preaching to China when he died on Shangchuan ...

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