Saint Francis Xavier/Footprints

Footprints for Saint Francis Xavier are tour-depth life-trace places — walkable stops, shrines, and mission sites for pilgrimage maps. They are not a second copy of the five infobox significant locations, and not every church dedicated to this person. Full catalog: Footprints · trails: Tour Regional Trails · nearby: NearMe. This tour: 6 stop(s) stored in Cargo VisitAccess: Public = open to pilgrims · Limited = hours/appointment or exterior · Private / Unknown = do not treat as a tourist stop. Prefer a real source URL before marking Public. Editors: Add or edit stops with form · Form help · Template fields Please keep life-trace scope (Footprints / lab SCOPE). A later fact-pack re-publish may overwrite form edits unless the YAML pack is updated too.

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Footprints

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• Se Cathedral / Old Goa sacred complex (Goa mission headquarters) [Public] Church – Old Goa, Goa, India, Old Goa, Goa, India
  • Year: 1542
  • Diocese: Archdiocese of Goa and Daman
  • Cathedral and Portuguese Goa ecclesiastical landscape of Xavier’s Indian base before voyages further east. Public Old Goa campus with Bom Jesus.
  • Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Se_Cathedral

• Kagoshima – first Jesuit landing in Japan (1549) (Japan mission beginning) [Public] Outdoor – Kagoshima, Kyushu, Japan, Kagoshima, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan
  • Year: 1549
  • Diocese: Diocese of Kagoshima
  • Landing region of Francis Xavier’s 1549 entry into Japan — start of the Christian century that later produced Paul Miki and the Nagasaki martyrs. Public coastal city landscape.
  • Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Xavier; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Catholic_Church_in_Japan

• Basilica of Bom Jesus (Old Goa) – tomb of Francis Xavier (Mission base, death return & tomb) [Public] Church – Old Goa, Goa, India, Old Goa, Goa, India
  • Year: 1552
  • Diocese: Archdiocese of Goa and Daman
  • UNESCO basilica holding the silver casket tomb of St. Francis Xavier — primary Asian pilgrimage pin of the Apostle of the Indies. Exposition years draw international crowds.
  • Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_of_Bom_Jesus; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Xavier

• Castle of Xavier (Navarre) – birthplace castle (Childhood) [Public] Other – Castillo de Javier, Javier, Navarre, Spain, Javier, Navarre, Spain
  • Year: 1506
  • Diocese: Archdiocese of Pamplona y Tudela
  • Family castle-birthplace of Francisco de Jasso y Azpilicueta (Francis Xavier). Public Navarre pilgrimage castle and basilica campus.
  • Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_of_Xavier; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Xavier

• Malacca – Southeast Asian mission staging post (Malay Archipelago missions) [Public] Outdoor – Historic Malacca / St. Paul’s Hill landscape, Malaysia, Malacca, Malacca, Malaysia
  • Year: 1545
  • Diocese: Diocese of Malacca-Johor
  • Strategic Portuguese port where Xavier preached and staged missions toward the Moluccas and Japan. Public St. Paul’s Hill ruins landscape.
  • Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Xavier

• Shangchuan Island (Sancian) – death place association (Death) [Limited] Outdoor – Shangchuan Island, Guangdong, China, Shangchuan, Guangdong, China
  • Year: 1552
  • Diocese: Diocese of Jiangmen
  • Island off the China coast where Xavier died 3 Dec 1552 awaiting entry to the mainland. Chapel/memorial association; Limited access relative to Goa tomb.
  • Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Xavier; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shangchuan_Island