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Aug 27, 2015 · Francis Xavier in Japan. The arrival of the Jesuit priest Francis Xavier (1506–52) on Hirado in the summer of 1550 marked a major historical turning point for the remote Kyūshū island as it ...
Francis Xavier reached Japan on 27 July 1549, with Anjiro and three other Jesuits, but he was not permitted to enter any port his ship arrived at until 15 August, when he went ashore at Kagoshima, the principal port of Satsuma Province on the island of Kyūshū. As a representative of the Portuguese king, he was received in a friendly manner.
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- 12 March 1622, Rome, Papal States, by Pope Gregory XV
- A Discovery in Takatsuki
- The Failed Mission to Japan
- Satis Est, Domine, Satis Est
- Japanese Devotion to St. Francis Xavier
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In 1920, researchers from the Kyoto Imperial University in Japan made a miraculous discovery. They found a locked chest—seemingly unopened for centuries—tied to a beam in the ceiling of an old house. When they opened it, they discovered a small collection of Christian artworks and texts. These were rare survivors from the European missions that sou...
In July 1549, Francis Xavier arrived in Japan, hoping to find success converting the Japanese to Christianity. Xavier initially struggled due to his lack of knowledge of the Japanese language and his inaccurate understanding of Japanese Buddhism. Still, he laid the foundation for a successful mission that continued to grow after he left Japan to re...
The Kobe painting of St. Francis Xavier is undeniably a product of both Japanese and European visual culture. The materials are Japanese, but the artist demonstrates some familiarity with European pictorial techniques like modeling in light and shade. The artist has also based the composition on prints of Xavier, such as those by Flemish printmaker...
Early modern Japanese Christians were especially devoted to Xavier since he had been the first Catholic missionary to bring knowledge of the Gospel to Japan and had supposedly worked several miracles in the Japanese islands. One of the most prominent Xavierian devotees was Ōtomo Yoshishige, a sixteenth-century daimyo who, after his baptism, had tak...
Grace Vlam, “The Portrait of S. Francis Xavier in Kobe,” Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte42, no. 1 (1979): pp. 48-60. Vlam, “The Portrait of S. Francis Xavier in Kobe,” pp. 48-60.
Learn more about the expanding the renaissance initiative. Read more about the Tokugawa period in Japan on Smarthistory. Read more about printmakers like Theodoor Galle on Smarthistory. Read more about the Kobe City Museumin Japan. Gauvin Alexander Bailey, Art on the Jesuit Missions in Asia and Latin America (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1...
Apr 16, 2024 · St. Francis Xavier (born April 7, 1506, Xavier (Javier) Castle, near Sangüesa, Navarre [Spain]—died December 3, 1552, Sancian [now Shangchuan] Island, China; canonized March 12, 1622; feast day December 3) was the greatest Roman Catholic missionary of modern times who was instrumental in the establishment of Christianity in India, the Malay Archipelago, and Japan.
- Who is St. Francis Xavier?St. Francis Xavier was a Spanish Jesuit who lived as a Roman Catholic missionary in the 1500s. He was one of the first seven members of the Jesuit...
- Why is St. Francis Xavier famous?St. Francis Xavier was one of the most prolific missionaries of Roman Catholic history. He was instrumental in the establishment of Christianity in...
- How did St. Francis Xavier shape Roman Catholicism?St. Francis Xavier brought several novel strategies to missionary work that influenced generations of Roman Catholic missions. He is credited for t...
- How did St. Francis Xavier die?St. Francis Xavier died on December 3, 1552, of fever. Ever seeking to expand his missionary work, he died on the island of Sancian (now Shang-ch’u...
Francis Xavier Japanese-Portuguese Bell Inscribed 1570, Nantoyōsō Collection, Japan. Francis Xavier was the first Jesuit to go to Japan as a missionary. In Portuguese Malacca in December 1547, Xavier met a Japanese man from Kagoshima named Anjirō. Anjirō had heard from Xavier in 1545 and had travelled from Kagoshima to Malacca with the ...
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Author: Lives of Saints. SAINT FRANCIS XAVIER APOSTLE OF THE INDIES AND JAPAN—1506-1552. Feast: December 3. In every age since Christ charged the Apostles to go and preach to all nations there have been saintly and heroic men who have journeyed to far lands in order to bring new peoples into the Christian fold.
We do have a few scattered mentions of other images of St. Francis Xavier in letters written by the Jesuit missionaries who remained in hiding in Japan after the 1614 prohibition. A 1625 letter written by a Jesuit who managed to evade the authorities mentions that he brought an image of St. Francis Xavier to a group of hidden Christians in ...
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