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

Private and alternative education institutions for children in preschool-12th grade include Regents School of Austin, Redeemer Lutheran School, Garza ( public ), Austin Discovery School ( public charter ), Austin Jewish Academy, The Austin Waldorf School, The Griffin School, The Khabele School, Concordia Academy, St. Ignatius Martyr Catholic School, Holy Family Catholic School, San Juan Diego Catholic High School, Brentwood Christian School, St. Austin Catholic School, St. Stephen's Episcopal School, St. Mary's, St. Theresa's, St. Michael's Catholic Academy, St. Gabriel's Catholic School, St. Andrew's Episcopal School, St. Francis Episcopal School, Saint Paul Lutheran School, Trinity Episcopal School, Huntington-Surrey, Cleaview Sudbury School, The Inside Outside School, ACE Academy, Paragon Preparatory Middle School, Austin International School, The Progress School and a number of Montessori schools.

* The Shadow Witness and The Doom of Saint Quirec, with Francis Burnand ( 1875 – 76 )

On May 5, 1940 Pope Pius XII named her a joint Patron Saint of Italy along with Saint Francis of Assisi.

:* Saint Francis Central Coast Catholic High School, a private high school

Saint Francis of Assisi, in Catholicism, is said to have received instruction directly from God and it is believed that he grants plenary indulgence to all who confess their sins and visit his chapel on the appropriate day.

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.

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

The feast of Saint Francis Xavier is celebrated on 8 December, although it is celebrated sometimes on 3 December.

In the year 2009, the was Sam Fransikachea Visvaxiponnachea Dekhin, Jezu-Noketra Bhaxen Porzollum-ia, which translates from Konkani into English as ' Inspired by the faithfulness of Saint Francis, let us shine like Jesus, the Star ', probably based on the year's pastoral theme of the Archdiocese of Goa e Damão Noketram Bhaxen, Sonvsarant Porzollum-ia which translates into English as ' Shine like Stars, in the World '.

The theme of the feast of Saint Francis Xavier, draws light from the Universal Church's declaration of 2009-10 as the Year for Priests.

This year masses are being held mainly in Konkanni, besides English, Marathi, Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Portuguese and Spanish languages, but most, if not all the Masses, conclude with the recessional hymn Sam Fransisku Xaviera, Vhodda Kunvra ( In English it roughly translates Our Saint Francis Xavier, Great Prince ).

Saint Francis Xavier's relics are kept in a silver casket, elevated inside the Bom Jesus Basilica and are exposed ( brought at ground level ) when the Archbishop of Goa e Damão decides.

Bones of Saint Francis Xavier are also found in the Espirito Santo ( Holy Spirit ) Church, Margão and in Sanv Fransiku Xavierachi Igorz ( Church of St. Francis Xavier ), Batpal, Canacona, Goa.

Other pilgrimage centres include Saint Francis Xavier's birthplace in Navarra, Church of Il Gesu, Rome, Malacca ( where he was buried for 2 years, before being brought to Goa ), Sancian ( Place of death ) etc.

*" Saint Francis Xavier " is featured in the Japanese gore film, Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl, and is responsible for the death of Vampire Girl's mother.

* Basilica of Bom Jesus, Old Goa The Shrine of Saint Francis Xavier

* Saint Francis Xavier University Antigonish, Nova Scotia

* The life and letters of St. Francis Xavier Francis Xavier, Saint, 1506-1552 Coleridge, Henry James, 1822-1893 London: Burns and Oates, ( 1872 )

* Saint Francis Xavier at Patron Saints Index

One of the first painters in the post-classical period to use this technique was the Isaac Master in the Upper Basilica of Saint Francis in Assisi.

In 1223 Saint Francis of Assisi instructed his friars to adopt the form that was in use at the Papal Court ( Rule, chapter 3 ).

* Francis of Assisi, Saint, founder of the Order of Friars Minor

* July 16 – Saint Francis of Assisi is canonized by Pope Gregory IX.

the coat of Francis of Assisi | Saint Francis of Assisi.

* September 26 – Saint Francis of Assisi, Italian founder of the Franciscan Order ( d. 1226 )

* Saint Francesco di Assisi

* Saint Francis of Assisi introduces Catholicism into Egypt, during the Fifth Crusade.

Among the major musical event that takes place every year is a celebration of the feast day of Saint Francis of Assisi, when the Paul Winter Consort participates in a liturgical performance of Winter's Missa Gaia ( Earth Mass ).

* Aegidius of Assisi, companion of Saint Francis of Assisi

* Olivier Messiaen: Saint-François d ' Assise ( Saint Francis of Assisi, opera )

Among the more prominent deacons in history are Phoebe, the only person actually called " deacon " in Scripture ; Stephen, the first Christian martyr ( the " protomartyr "); Philip, whose baptism of the Ethiopian eunuch is recounted in ; Saint Lawrence, an early Roman martyr ; Saint Vincent of Saragossa, protomartyr of Spain ; Saint Francis of Assisi, founder of the mendicant Franciscans ; Saint Ephrem the Syrian and Saint Romanos the Melodist, a prominent early hymnographer.

The mission, the eighth Spanish mission built in California, was founded on January 12, 1777 and named for Saint Clare of Assisi, the foundress of the order of the Poor Clares.

The Order of Friars Minor and other Franciscan movements are disciples of Saint Francis of Assisi ( 1182-1226 ).

* Italy – Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Catherine of Siena

Alexander Alexandrovich Romanov was born on 10 March 1845 in Saint Petersburg, Russia, the second son of Emperor Alexander II of Russia and his wife Maria Alexandrovna ( Marie of Hesse ).

In the late sixth century, Ayios Ioannis Eleimonas ( Saint John the Charitable ), protector of the Knights of St. John, was born in Amathus.

* Saint David Lewis, Catholic priest and martyr, was born in Abergavenny.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints traces its origins to western New York, where Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement was born and raised.

Columbanus ( the Latinised form of Columbán ) was born in Nobber, County Meath, Ireland, in the year Saint Benedict died, and from childhood was well instructed.

On March 24, 1945, Camilla Christine Hall was born in Saint Peter, Minnesota.

Cantor was born in 1845 in the western merchant colony in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and brought up in the city until he was eleven.

Saint Herman of Alaska ( born 1756 or 1760 in Serpukhov, Russia – died December 13 or November 15, 1837 on Spruce Island, Alaska ) was one of the first Eastern Orthodox missionaries to the New World, and is considered by Orthodox Christians to be the patron saint of the Americas.

Saint Herman was born in the town of Serpukhov in the Moscow Diocese around 1756.

Grammer was born in Saint Thomas, U. S. Virgin Islands, the son of Sally ( née Cranmer ), a singer, and Frank Allen Grammer, Jr., a musician and owner of a coffee shop and a bar & grill called Greer's Place.

He was born in Bangalore, South India, and educated at Saint Ronan's School in Worthing, West Sussex, and at Cheltenham College, where he met his lifelong friend and biographer, the screenwriter and novelist Gavin Lambert ; Wadham College, Oxford, where he studied classics ; and Magdalen College, Oxford where he studied English literature.

Léon Theremin was born Lev Sergeyevich Termen in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire in 1896 into a family of French and German ancestry.

Pope Saint Anastasius I, born in Rome the son of Maximus, was pope from 27 November 399 to 401.

Marinus was born in Rome, and prior to becoming pope he was attached to the Church of Saint Cyriacus in the Baths of Diocletian.

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

* Saint Rose of Lima, of the third order of Saint Dominic, born at Lima, Peru in 1586.

Pope Saint Celestine V ( 1215 – 19 May 1296 ), born Pietro Angelerio ( according to some sources Angelario, Angelieri, Angelliero, or Angeleri ), also known as Pietro da Morrone, was elected Pope in the year 1294 in the last non-conclave papal election in the history of the Roman Catholic Church.

Pope Saint Zosimus was born in Mesoraca, Calabria and was Pope from 18 March 417 to 26 December 418 ( or 27 December ).

When Pelagius taught that moral perfection was attainable in this life without the assistance of divine grace through human free will, Saint Augustine contradicted this by saying that perfection was impossible without grace because we are born sinners with a sinful heart and will.

Saint Raphael of Brooklyn ( November 20, 1860 – February 27, 1915 ), also known as Father Raphael, was born as Raphael Hawaweeny () in Beirut, Lebanon, of Damascene Syrian parents.

According to tradition, Saint Agnes was a member of the Roman nobility born c. 291 and raised in a Christian family.

Saint Boniface () ( c. 7th century – 5 June 754 ), the Apostle of the Germans, born Winfrid, Wynfrith, or Wynfryth in the kingdom of Wessex, probably at Crediton ( now in Devon, England ), was a missionary who propagated Christianity in the Frankish Empire during the 8th century.

The patron saint of the city is Saint Lucy ; she was born in Syracuse and her feast day, Saint Lucy's Day, is celebrated on 13 December.