Saint
Francis Xavier
SJ
Painting of Saint Francis Xavier, held in the Kobe City Museum, Japan
Born
Francisco de Jasso y Azpilicueta
7 April 1506
Javier, Kingdom of Navarre
Died
3 December 1552 (aged 46)
Shangchuan Island, Chuanshan Archipelago, Xinning, China
Venerated in
Catholic Church
Anglican Communion[1]
Lutheranism[2]
Beatified
25 October 1619, Rome, Papal States, by Pope Paul V
Canonized
12 March 1622, Rome, Papal States, by Pope Gregory XV
Feast
3 December
Attributes
Cassock
surplice
stole
ferraiolo
crucifix
Patronage
African missions
Kottar, India
Agartala, India
Ahmedabad, India
Alexandria, Louisiana
Apostleship of Prayer
Australia
Bengaluru, India
Bombay, India
Borneo
Cape Town, South Africa
China
Dinajpur, Bangladesh
Far East
Fathers of the Precious Blood
foreign missions
Freising, Germany
Goa, India
Fiji
Green Bay, Wisconsin
India
Indianapolis, Indiana
Japan
Key West, Florida
Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan
St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Canada
Sucre, Bolivia
Joliet, Illinois
Kabankalan, Philippines
Kollam, India
Nasugbu, Batangas, Philippines
Abuyog, Leyte, Philippines
Alegria, Cebu, Palompon, Leyte, Philippines
Hong Kong
Macau
Diocese of Malindi, Kenya
missionaries
Missioners of the Precious Blood
Navarre, Spain
navigators
New Zealand
parish missions
plague epidemics
Propagation of the Faith
India, Zagreb, Croatia
Indonesia
Malacca, Malaysia
Brunei
Pakistan
Singapore
Sri Lanka
Kapatagan, Lanao del Norte
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