St. Francis Xavier’s Relics Draws 12,000 in Goa, India, for Decennial Exposition The display will continue until Jan. 5. Pilgrims may visit his relics from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the cathedral.

MUMBAI, India – Pilgrims have flocked to see the relics of St. Francis Xavier in India. Every decade, the relics of the Jesuit saint are exposed in the Indian state of Goa – this year’s ...

MUMBAI, India – A delegation of nine representatives from the Vatican participated in the ten-yearly exposition of the sacred relics of St. Francis Xavier in Old Goa in India.

Catholic groups have asked the Archbishop of Goa to include religious services in Marathi duringthe exposition of relic of St Francis Xavier which will begin in December. The annual feast day of ...

Top Vatican Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle has warned against “fake messengers” as he joined some 15,000 Catholics for the feast Mass of St. Francis Xavier in India’s Goa state, where the saint’s relics ...

Notably, St Francis Xavier, a Spanish Jesuit missionary, arrived in Goa, then a Portuguese colony, in 1542. He died in 1552 on Sancian Island, off the coast of Guangdong province in China.

St Francis Xavier or Parshuram, Goa Debates Over a Patron Saint PANAJI, (IANS)- Having elected 40 legislators to the state Assembly in February after a bitter, arduous political campaign, Goa, in ...

The legacy of St. Francis Xavier, a Spanish Jesuit missionary who died four centuries ago, continues shaping generations in the Asian Church, says Indian Cardinal Filipe Neri Ferrao. Ferrao, ...

The people of Goa have a strong devotion to St. Francis Xavier, the famed Jesuit missionary who evangelized the area beginning in 1542. He is known there as “Goencho Saib,” which means “the ...