A report on Francis Xavier
Navarrese Catholic missionary and saint who was a co-founder of the Society of Jesus.
- Francis Xavier57 related topics with Alpha
Society of Jesus
11 linksReligious order of the Catholic Church headquartered in Rome.
Religious order of the Catholic Church headquartered in Rome.
In 1534, Ignatius and six other young men, including Francis Xavier and Peter Faber, gathered and professed promises of poverty, chastity, and later obedience, including a special vow of obedience to the pope in matters of mission direction and assignment.
Ignatius of Loyola
10 links
Ignatius of Loyola, S.J. (born Íñigo López de Oñaz y Loyola; Ignazio Loiolakoa; Ignacio de Loyola; Ignatius de Loyola; c. 23 October 1491 – 31 July 1556), venerated as Saint Ignatius of Loyola, was a Spanish Catholic priest and theologian, who, with Peter Faber and Francis Xavier, founded the religious order of the Society of Jesus (The Jesuits), and became its first Superior General, in Paris in 1541.
Portuguese India
6 linksState of the Portuguese Empire founded six years after the discovery of a sea route to the Indian subcontinent by Vasco da Gama, a subject of the Kingdom of Portugal.
State of the Portuguese Empire founded six years after the discovery of a sea route to the Indian subcontinent by Vasco da Gama, a subject of the Kingdom of Portugal.
On 16 May 1546, the Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier requested the institution of the Goa Inquisition for the "Old Christians" and "New Christians", in a letter to John III of Portugal.
Goa Inquisition
4 linksExtension of the Portuguese Inquisition in Portuguese India.
Extension of the Portuguese Inquisition in Portuguese India.
In 1546, Francis Xavier wrote to King John III of Portugal, requesting him to establish Inquisition in Goa.
Missionary
4 linksMember of a religious group which is sent into an area in order to promote its faith or provide services to people, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care, and economic development.
Member of a religious group which is sent into an area in order to promote its faith or provide services to people, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care, and economic development.
![Central Asian Buddhist monk teaching a Chinese monk. Bezeklik, 9th-10th century; although Albert von Le Coq (1913) assumed the blue-eyed, red-haired monk was a Tocharian, modern scholarship has identified similar Caucasian figures of [[:File:BezeklikSogdianMerchants.jpg|the same cave temple]] (No. 9) as ethnic Sogdians, an Eastern Iranian people who inhabited Turfan as an ethnic minority community during the phases of Tang Chinese (7th-8th century) and Uyghur rule (9th-13th century).](https://hyperleap.com/images/9ebc54bf377ab5fb59e5b60200453f47/200-7dc2255b7ed574d4e1f602b8805bf945.jpeg)
About the same time, missionaries such as Francis Xavier (1506–1552) as well as other Jesuits, Augustinians, Franciscans, and Dominicans reached Asia and the Far East, and the Portuguese sent missions into Africa.
Catholic Church
3 linksLargest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptised Catholics worldwide.
Largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptised Catholics worldwide.
Elsewhere, Portuguese missionaries under the Spanish Jesuit Francis Xavier evangelised in India, China, and Japan.
John III of Portugal
4 linksThe King of Portugal and the Algarves from 1521 until his death in 1557.
The King of Portugal and the Algarves from 1521 until his death in 1557.
In 1540, after successive appeals to Pope Paul III asking for missionaries for the Portuguese East Indies under the "Padroado" agreement, John III appointed Francis Xavier to take charge as Apostolic Nuncio.
Goa
4 linksState on the southwestern coast of India within the Konkan region, geographically separated from the Deccan highlands by the Western Ghats.
State on the southwestern coast of India within the Konkan region, geographically separated from the Deccan highlands by the Western Ghats.
The basilica holds the mortal remains of St. Francis Xavier, regarded by many Catholics as the patron saint of Goa (the patron of the Archdiocese of Goa is actually Saint Joseph Vaz).
Eusebio Kino
4 linksTyrolean Jesuit, missionary, geographer, explorer, cartographer and astronomer born in the Territory of the Bishopric of Trent, then part of the Holy Roman Empire.
Tyrolean Jesuit, missionary, geographer, explorer, cartographer and astronomer born in the Territory of the Bishopric of Trent, then part of the Holy Roman Empire.
In 1665, after his recovery from an illness, as part of a vow fulfillment, he adopted Francesco as second name, for devotion to Saint Francis Xavier.
Alfonso Salmeron
2 linksSpanish biblical scholar, a Catholic priest, and one of the first Jesuits.
Spanish biblical scholar, a Catholic priest, and one of the first Jesuits.
Here, through Diego Laynez, he met St. Ignatius of Loyola and with Laynez, St. Peter Faber and St. Francis Xavier, he enlisted as one of the first companions of Loyola in 1534.