Spanish Catholic saint and missionary (1506–1552)
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One of seven men who took vows on a hill in Paris in 1534 and launched the Society of Jesus — then carried that mission from India to Japan, dying on an island off China's coast while trying to push further in.
Francisco de Jasso y Azpilicueta was born in the Kingdom of Navarre on 7 April 1506, became a companion of Ignatius of Loyola, and in 1534 joined six others in taking vows of poverty and chastity at Montmartre. As a representative of the Portuguese Empire, he led extensive missionary work across Asia, evangelizing in Portuguese India and writing to King John III in 1546 with proposals to strengthen the faith in Goa — a letter some historians read as a call for what became the Goan Inquisition, though others dispute that interpretation. He pressed into Borneo, the Maluku Islands, and Japan, str…
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One of Xavier's colleagues in this mission of christianising the Hindus was Miguel Vaz, the Vicar General of India appointed by Rome.
Following the baptisms, the new Christians return to their homes and come back with their wives and families to be in their turn prepared for baptism.
All the heathen are filled with admiration at the holiness of the law of God, and express the greatest shame at having lived so long in ignorance of the true God.
St Xavier had come to the East representing both the Pope ‑ as a Legate ‑ and the King as an inspector of missions.
To a considerable extent the shape of Xavier's missionary work was determined by this threefold authority.
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