The "Apostle of the Indies", this missionary helped found the Jesuits & introduced Christianity to Japan
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Francis Xavier - Wikipedia  Saint Francis Xavier, S.J. was a Navarrese-Basque Roman Catholic missionary, born in Javier ... He also was the first Christian missionary to venture into Japan, Borneo, the ... Known as the "Apostle of the Indies," and the "Apostle of Japan", he is ..... Relics of Saint Francis Xavier are also found in the Espirito Santo (Holy...
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Saint Francis Xavier | Christian missionary | Britannica.com  The greatest Roman Catholic missionary of modern times, who was instrumental in the establishment of Christianity in India, the Malay Archipelago, and Japan. ... the College of Holy Faith, founded several years previously, was turned over to the Jesuits, ... He became known as the Apostle of the Indies and was eventually...
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St. Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies and Japan - EWTN.com  Among those who labored most zealously was the Jesuit, Francis Xavier, named ... The first great missionary to the Orient in modern times, Xavier planted Christianity in western ... When scurvy broke out on all the ships, he helped tend the sick. ..... He had found an interpreter, for the Chinese he had brought from Goa knew...
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HISTORY OF THE JESUITS  In a pattern often typical of the spread of Christianity, the ... Xavier's personal mission now takes him further east - to Malacca, and then ... of Japan because (in Xavier's account of the conversation) they 'are...
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The life of Saint Francis Xavier - Our Lady of the Rosary Library  He blazed the trail fearlessly, treading where no missionary dared before to tread, ... Sometime after this, having one day found Xavier more than ordinarily .... Indies, Fr. Paul de Camarino, an Italian Jesuit, and Francis Mansilla, a Portuguese, .... in order to please the Portuguese who had helped them against the Moors, had...
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The life of St. Francis Xavier : apostle of the Indies and Japan ...  The metadata below describe the original scanning. Follow the "All Files: HTTP" link in the "View the book" box to the left to find XML files that contain more...
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Ignatius Loyola - New Advent  Biography of the Spanish founder of the Jesuits, who died in 1556. ... The saint was baptized Iigo, after St. Enecus (Innicus), Abbot of Oa: the name Ignatius was ... His first care was to make a general confession at the famous sanctuary of ... To studies he therefore gave eleven years, more than a third of his remaining life.
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St. Ignatius Loyola - IgnatianSpirituality.com  St. Ignatius Loyola was born in 1491, one of 13 children of a family of minor ... small group of friends, Ignatius Loyola founded the Society of Jesus, or the Jesuits.
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St Ignatius of Loyola Biography - Saint Ignatius of Loyola Childhood ...  St Ignatius of Loyola was the foremost founder of the 'Society of Jesus'. ... Saint Ignatius of Loyola is best known as the founder and first Superior General of ... He had set a new mission for himself - converting the non-Christians to Christianity. ... "every religious order had to be held to the recitation of the office in common.".
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St. Ignatius Loyola - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online  Born Inigo Lopez de Loyola in 1491, the man known as Ignatius of Loyola entered the world in ... His last name, "Loyola" was taken from the village of his birth.
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Who was St. Ignatius Loyola? - Xavier University  A Biography of St. Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556): The Founder of the Jesuits ... whom we know as St. Ignatius, was born in the Castle Loyola, in the Basque...
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St. Francis Xavier, Confessor, Apostle of the Indies - EWTN.com  Hagiography. From Fr. Alban Butler's Lives of the Saints.
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Mary Magdalene: The First "Apostle" of the Good News of the ...  Mary Magdalene: The First "Apostle" of the Good News of the Resurrection ... She saw where His body was laid to rest in Joseph's tomb, and helped to ... Jesus for some time; she is first mentioned in Luke 8:2 as one of the women who went ... Her name indicates she is from Magdala, believed to be a town near Tiberias in...
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Francis Xavier - Wikipedia  Saint Francis Xavier, S.J. was a Navarrese-Basque Roman Catholic missionary, born in Javier .... Francis began his study of theology in 1534 and was ordained on June 24, 1537. In 1539, after long .... Xavier worked for more than two years in Japan and saw his successor-Jesuits established. He then decided to return to...
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Free Flashcards about BIBLE - StudyStack  THIS APOSTLE, AN EFFECTIVE MISSIONARY, IS SOMETIMES CALLED THE "SECOND FOUNDER" OF CHRISTIANITY, PAUL. THIS LEON URIS NOVEL...
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Christianity in Japan - Wikipedia  Christianity in Japan is among the nation's minority religions. Fewer than one percent of the .... In 1570 there were 20 Catholic missionaries in Japan. ... He later founded the Hepburn School, which developed into Meiji Gakuin University, ... of organized Christianity in Japan was the arrival of the Portuguese Catholics in 1549.
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Saint Francis Xavier and the Roots of Christianity in Japan | Nippon ...  Aug 27, 2015 ... Arriving in Japan in 1549, Jesuit priest Francis Xavier played a key role in the early ... to the enduring influence of Spanish and Portuguese missionaries. .... In 1600, the same year that Tokugawa Ieyasu established control of...
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History of the Catholic Church in Japan - Wikipedia  Christian missionaries arrived with Francis Xavier and the Jesuits in the 1540s and briefly .... Xavier reached Japan on 27 July 1549, with Anjir and three other Jesuits, but it ... He favored the Jesuit missionary Lus Fris and generally tolerated .... Christians Protasio Arima and Paulo Okamoto were named as principals in an...
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Voyages of Christopher Columbus - Wikipedia  In 1492 a Spanish-based transatlantic maritime expedition led by Christopher Columbus resulted in the discovery of the Americas, a continent which was previously unknown in Europe, as well as the colonization of the Americas. Columbus and his crew became the first Christians to make landfall in the .... King Ferdinand II of Aragon married Queen Isabella I of Castile in 1469,...
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CHAPTER III. EARLY SPANISH EXPLORATIONS (Continued).  Friar Marcos was made a Provincial of the Franciscans, and the Franciscan ... and his life was saved through the efforts of Don Garcia Lopez de Cardenas and ... Before the army left Culiacan, Hernando de Alarcon was sent in command of a ... of the Gila River, and his explorations were up the river, where he had some...
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IMA Hero: Reading Program Francisco Coronado  This expedition was led by Francisco Vsquez de Coronado. ... Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto became the first European to see the Mississippi River. ... Coronado did not want to fight, and he sent a peace party to inform the Zuni. ... Which of the following natural wonders was seen by one of Francisco Vsquez de...