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Francis Xavier

Spanish Catholic saint and missionary (1506–1552)

8 dated entries naming Francis Xavier, drawn from 6 separate years between 1506 CE and 1622 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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16th century

  • 1506April 7 – Francis Xavier, Spanish Jesuit saint (d. 1552)source
  • 1541April 7 – Francis Xavier leaves Lisbon, on a mission to the Portuguese East Indies.source
  • 1546May 16 – Writing from Portuguese India, Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier asks King João III of Portugal, proposing what will become the Goa Inquisition of 1561.source
  • 1549April 15 – Spanish Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier departs from Goa on a mission to bring Christian ministry to Japan.source
  • 1549August 15 – Francis Xavier, his translator Anjirō, and three other Jesuit priests are allowed to come ashore at Kagoshima in Japan.source
  • 1549July 27 – (Tenbun 18, 3rd day of the 7th month) European Jesuit Francis Xavier arrives in Japan at the port of Kagoshima, the first Christian missionary there, but is not allowed to go to shore until three weeks later.source
  • 1552December 3 – Francis Xavier, Spanish Jesuit missionary and saint (b. 1506)source

17th century

  • 1622March 12 – Ignatius of Loyola, Francis Xavier, Teresa of Ávila, Isidore the Farmer and Philip Neri are canonized by Pope Gregory XV.source

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