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* 1549 – Jesuit priest Saint Francis Xavier comes ashore at Kagoshima ( Traditional Japanese date: July 22, 1549 ).

* 1541 – Francis Xavier leaves Lisbon on a mission to the Portuguese East Indies.

* 1506 – Francis Xavier, Spanish Roman Catholic missionary, co-founder of the Society of Jesus ( d. 1552 )

* Moses Coady, Roman Catholic priest, helped found the Co-operative Antigonish Movement at St. Francis Xavier University

* James " Father Jimmy " Tompkins, Roman Catholic priest, helped found the Co-operative Antigonish Movement at St. Francis Xavier University

For example, at least one El Borak in which the protagonist infiltrates the City of the assassins was rewritten with Conan replacing Francis Xavier Gordon and a supernatural element added.

** Francis Xavier ( Roman Catholic Church and Anglican communion )

Other popular landmarks and monuments include the Mansion House, the Anna Livia monument, the Molly Malone statue, Christ Church Cathedral, St Patrick's Cathedral, Saint Francis Xavier Church on Upper Gardiner Street near Mountjoy Square, The Custom House, and Áras an Uachtaráin.

Francis Xavier was born in the family castle of Xavier ( Xabier, toponymic name whose origin comes from " etxaberri " meaning " new house " in the Basque language ) in the Kingdom of Navarre on 7 April 1506 according to a family register.

Conversion of the Paravar s by Francis Xavier in Old Goa | Goa, in a 19th-century colored lithograph.

Voyages of St. Francis Xavier

In Malacca in December, 1547, Francis Xavier met a Japanese man named Anjirō.

A statue of Francis Xavier ( middle ) with his Japanese disciples Anjirō ( left ) and Bernardo the Japanese | Bernardo ( right ), in Xavier Park ( Kagoshima, Japan ).

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 the province of Satsuma on the island of Kyūshū.

The Altar of St. Francis Xavier Parish in Nasugbu, Batangas, Philippines.

Casket of Saint Francis Xavier in the Basilica of Bom Jesus in Goa

It was subsequently moved to St. Joseph's and in 1978 to the Chapel of St. Francis Xavier on Coloane Island.

" The Vision of St. Francis Xavier ", by Giovanni Battista Gaulli.

St. Francis Xavier is noteworthy for his missionary work, both as organizer and as pioneer.

Pope Benedict XVI said of both Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier: " not only their history which was interwoven for many years from Paris and Rome, but a unique desire — a unique passion, it could be said — moved and sustained them through different human events: the passion to give to God-Trinity a glory always greater and to work for the proclamation of the Gospel of Christ to the peoples who had been ignored.

In English speaking countries, " Xavier " is one of the few names starting with X, and until recently was likely to follow " Francis "; in the last decade, however, " Xavier " by itself has become more popular than " Francis ", and is now one of the hundred most common male baby names in the US.

Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma ( born Prince Louis of Battenberg ; 25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979 ), was a British statesman and naval officer, an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and second cousin once removed to Elizabeth II.

Francis Ford Coppola (, ; born April 7, 1939 )

* Franz, Duke of Bavaria ( born 1933 ), called " Francis II " by supporters of the Jacobite claim to the thrones of England, Scotland, Ireland and France.

Francis Scott Key was born to Ann Phoebe Penn Dagworthy ( Charlton ) and Captain John Ross Key at the family plantation Terra Rubra in what was Frederick County, Maryland ( now Carroll County, Maryland ).

Francis Hopkinson was born at Philadelphia in 1737, the son of Thomas Hopkinson and Mary Johnson.

Bronze statue of Sir Francis Drake in Tavistock, in the parish of which he was born.

Francis Drake was born in Tavistock, Devon, in February or March 1544 at the earliest, when his namesake godfather Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford was age 17.

Francis was born in Florence, the capital of Tuscany, where his father reigned as Grand Duke from 1765 – 90.

Saint Francis of Assisi ( born Giovanni Francesco di Bernardone ; 1181 died: October 3, 1226 ) was an Italian Catholic friar and preacher.

Francis of Assisi was one of seven children born to Pietro di Bernardone, a rich cloth merchant, and his wife Pica, about whom little is known except that she was originally from France.

Pietro was in France on business when Francis was born, and Pica had him baptised as Giovanni di Bernardone.

* Francis Goya ( born 1946 ), born Francis Weyer, Belgian romantic guitarist and composer

A fourth child, Francis Douglas Gardner, was then born in 1886.

Son Francis was born in 1791.

In 1848, the General Conference stated, “ when the Church has collected ... a great population born within bosom, she cannot fulfill her high mission unless she takes measure to prevent this population from being withdrawn from under her care in the period of its youth .” The first two American bishops of the Methodist Church, Thomas Coke and Francis Asbury, opened a preparatory school in Abingdon, Maryland in 1787.

Joey Santiago and Black Francis ( born Charles Thompson IV ) first met when they lived next to each other in a suite while attending the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

* Saint Francis Borgia, fourth Duke of Gandia, Marquis of Lombay, and viceroy of Catalonia, born in 1510.

Scott was born in the North East Tyneside coastal town of South Shields, England, the son of Elizabeth and Colonel Francis Percy Scott.

Coppola serves as the " Honorary Consul H. E. Francis Ford Coppola " for the Central American nation of Belize in San Francisco.

Natural law theories have, however, exercised a profound influence on the development of English common law, and have featured greatly in the philosophies of Thomas Aquinas, Francisco Suárez, Richard Hooker, Thomas Hobbes, Hugo Grotius, Samuel von Pufendorf, John Locke, Francis Hutcheson, Jean Jacques Burlamaqui, and Emmerich de Vattel.

The very existence of Tierra del Fuego as one or more islands and not as part of Terra Australis was first inferred by Francisco de Hoces in 1525, then by Francis Drake in 1578 and in 1616 by a Dutch VOC expedition who named Cape Horn.

Mission San Francisco Solano was founded on July 4, 1823, and named for Francis Solanus, a missionary to the Indians of Peru born in Montilla, Spain, known as the " Wonder Worker of the New World.

The fighting reputation of pit bull-type dogs led the San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in 1996 to relabel pit bull terriers as " St. Francis Terriers " ( not associated with the " terrier " mascot of St. Francis College in New York ) so that they might be more readily adopted ; 60 temperament-screened dogs were adopted until the program was halted after several of the newly adopted dogs killed cats.

Francisco Z. Araneta, S. J., then rector, had vowed to St. Francis Xavier that if ever Ateneo de Cagayan is conferred as a university before its Commencement Exercises on March 22, 1958, he will rename the university after the saint.

Barrymore was staying at the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco when the 1906 earthquake struck.

In 2010 the International Knarr Championship ( IKC ) were held at the St. Francis Yacht Club in San Francisco.

Tibbett traveled to California in 1927 to sing the lead role in the Grove Play St. Francis of Assisi, and it was during that trip to San Francisco when he met ex-New Yorker Jennie Marston Burgard, whom he married in 1932.

E. F. Hutton & Co. was founded in San Francisco in 1904 by namesake Edward Francis Hutton and his brother Franklyn Laws Hutton.

In March and October 2007, Francis performed to sold-out crowds at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco.

# James Francis Fitz-James Stuart, or Jacobo Francisco Fitz-James Stuart, 2nd Duke of Berwick, 2nd Duque de Liria, 2nd Duque de Xérica, ( 21 October 1696 – 2 June 1738, Naples, Italy ).

São Francisco and Charitas, sites named after the Catholic Church built in honor to Saint Francis by the Jurujuba cove, remained sparsely populated till about 1940.

Michelson conducted some work in San Francisco, in the Coleman Laboratory at the University of California, a foundation funded by the wealthy ENT department chairman at UCSF, Francis Sooy, MD.

These papers ( by Daniel Dennett, Colin McGinn, Francisco Varela, Francis Crick, and Roger Penrose, among others ) were collected and published in the book Explaining Consciousness: The Hard Problem.

She alienated many U. S. Catholics ( including some clerical leaders ) with her condemnation of Falangist leader Francisco Franco during the Spanish Civil War ; and, possibly in response to her criticism of Cardinal Francis Spellman, she came under pressure by the Archdiocese of New York in 1951 to change the name of her newspaper, " ostensibly because the word Catholic implies an official church connection when such was not the case.

* The Pageant of Nations ( 1913 )-seven murals adorning The Mural Room at the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco.

Cali contains a well preserved historical center, the most important zone is La plaza de Caicedo, considered the center of the city, which is a square surrounded by many historical and modern buildings like El edificio Otero, La Catedral and El Palacio de Justicia ; This plaza is close to other touristic places, like The Saint Francis church ( in Spanish, Iglesia de San Francisco ), the municipal theater and La Merced church.

While a freshman in college, Folger became a debutante on December 21, 1961 at the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, where she made her official debut into San Francisco's high society.

George Francis Train ( March 24, 1829 – January 5, 1904 ) was an American entrepreneurial businessman who organized the clipper ship line that sailed around Cape Horn to San Francisco ; he organized the Union Pacific Railroad and the Credit Mobilier in the United States, and a horse tramway company in England while there during the American Civil War.

David Francis Dravecky ( born February 14, 1956, in Youngstown, Ohio, graduated from Boardman High School in 1974, United States ) is a Christian motivational speaker, author, and former Major League Baseball player for the San Diego Padres ( 1982 – 87 ) and San Francisco Giants ( 1987 – 89 ).

The feast day of Francis of Asisi, patron of the Barrio Cuadrante de San Francisco is announced by a band playing wind instruments playing through the streets.

The Franciscans who founded the mission also are credited with naming the City and County of San Francisco, and the entire region, after their patron, Saint Francis of Assisi.