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Portrait of St. Francis Xavier, One of the Earliest Missionaries to Japan
In this city Pinto met, apparently for the first time, with Master Francis Xavier, general superior or provincial of the order of the Jesuits in India, in all parts of which occupied by the Portuguese he had already attained a high reputation for self-devotion, sanctity, and miraculous power; and who was then at Malacca, on his return to Goa, from a mission on which he had lately been to the Moluccas
- Author
- Hildreth's "Japan as it was and is", Volume I (of 2)
A Handbook of Old Japan
By Richard Hildreth
Published in 1906
Available from gutenberg.org - Posted on
- Tuesday 21 December 2021
- Dimensions
- 900*1184
- Tags
- Catholic, Century:16th , Place:Japan, Religion
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