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Leaving Rome in 1540, Francis took with him a breviary, a catechism and a Latin book () written by the Croatian humanist Marko Marulić that had become popular in the counter-reformation.

The breviary and the book by Marulić accompanied Xavier on all of his voyages, and was used as source material for much of his preaching.

According to a 1549 letters of F. Balthasar Gago in Goa, it was the only book that Francis read or studied.