Jose de Acosta, a Spanish Jesuit missionary who lived in Peru and then Mexico in the later 16th century, wrote of it:

As the first Jesuit in India, Francis had difficulty procuring success for his missionary trips.

Francis was the first Jesuit to go to Japan as a missionary.

By his compromises in India with the Christians of St. Thomas, he developed the Jesuit missionary methods along lines that subsequently became a successful blueprint for his order to follow.

His efforts left a significant impression upon the missionary history of India and, as one of the first Jesuit missionaries to the East Indies, his work is of fundamental significance to Christians in the propagation of Christianity in China and Japan.

* 1613 – Noël Chabanel, French Jesuit missionary ( d. 1649 )

Most of what is known about Pre-Contact (" Ancient ") Chamorros comes from legends and myths, archaeological evidence, Jesuit missionary accounts, and observations from visiting scientists like Otto von Kotzebue and Louis de Freycinet.

* Charles John Seghers, Jesuit clergyman and missionary ( 1839 – 1886 )

Giulio Alenio ( often spelled Giulio Aleni ; ; 1582-June 10, 1649 ) was an Italian Jesuit missionary and scholar.

In 1583, Thomas Stephens, an English Jesuit missionary in Goa, in a letter to his brother that was not published until the 20th century, noted similarities between Indian languages, specifically Konkani, and Greek and Latin.

* 1678 – Jeronimo Lobo, Portuguese Jesuit missionary ( b. 1593 )

Jesuit missionary.

* 1593 – Saint Jean de Brébeuf, French Jesuit missionary ( d. 1649 )

* 1649 – Saint Jean de Brébeuf, French Jesuit missionary ( b. 1593 )

* Martino Martini ( 1614 – 1661 ), Italian Jesuit missionary and cartographer of China

* 1660 – Alexandre de Rhodes, French Jesuit missionary ( b. 1591 )

* 1552 – Matteo Ricci, Italian Jesuit missionary ( d. 1610 )

* 1715 – Michel Benoist, French Jesuit missionary ( d. 1774 )

The Amphitrite group was named after the French frigate Amphitrite of the Jesuit missionary.

Jesuit missionary Jacques Gravier's pioneering Kaskaskia-French dictionary explicitly describes and names the passenger pigeon as mimi8a in the Kaskaskia Illinois language, said to be equivalent to tourtre in French.

At the same time, Urban repealed the Jesuit monopoly on missionary work in China and Japan, opening these countries to missionaries of all orders.

The Matteo Ricci College was founded in 1973 and named after Italian Jesuit missionary, Matteo Ricci.

* July 17 – Martin Dobrizhoffer, Austrian Jesuit missionary ( b. 1717 )

** Pedro Páez, Jesuit missionary in Ethiopia ( d. 1622 )

* June 9 – José de Anchieta, Spanish Jesuit missionary ( b. 1534 )

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

Francis went, with the rest of the members of the newly papal-approved Jesuit order, to Venice to be ordained to the priesthood, which took place on 24 June 1537.

He has been depicted in various artworks, including Rubens ' painting " St Francis Xavier raising the dead ", which the Flemish master painted for a Jesuit church in Antwerp, and in which he depicted one of St Francis ' many alleged miracles ( in this case a resurrection ).

* 1549 – The Jesuit priest Francis Xavier's ship reaches Japan.

In 1632 and 1656 is was referred to as Lac de St. Louis or Lake St. Louis by Samuel de Champlain and cartographer Nicolas Sanson respectively ( likely for Louis XIV of France ) In 1660 Jesuit historian Francis Creuxius coined the name Lacus Ontarius.

Private high schools in Toledo include Maumee Valley Country Day School, Central Catholic High School, St. Francis de Sales High School, St. John's Jesuit High School and Academy, Notre Dame Academy, St. Ursula Academy ( Ottawa Hills ), Cardinal Stritch High School ( Oregon ), the Toledo Islamic Academy, Freedom Christian Academy, Toledo Christian Schools, Emmanuel Christian, the David S. Stone Hebrew Academy ( Sylvania ), Monclova Christian Academy, and Apostolic Christian Academy.

* April 7 – Francis Xavier, Spanish Jesuit saint ( d. 1552 )

* December 2 – Francis Xavier, Spanish Jesuit missionary ( b. 1506 )

But her confessor, the Jesuit Saint Francis Borgia, reassured her of the divine inspiration of her thoughts.

Among the critics of the views put forward in this book was a Jesuit, Francis Line ( 1595 – 1675 ), and it was while answering his objections that Boyle made his first mention of the law that the volume of a gas varies inversely to the pressure of the gas, which among English-speaking people is usually called Boyle's Law after his name.

( Interestingly, the St. Francis festivities in Magdalena are held in the beginning of October ( the anniversary of the death of St. Francis of Assisi ), and not at the time of St. Francis Xavier, who was a Jesuit.

In 1958, Ateneo de Cagayan became a university and was renamed to its present name, Xavier University, in honor of the Jesuit missionary, St. Francis Xavier.

* Francis Line ( 1595 – 1675 ), also known as Linus of Liège, Jesuit priest and scientist

Another possibility is that Jacques Marquette, a Jesuit who explored the region in 1673, named the river for the Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier.

* 1626-After entering Japan in disguise, Jesuit missionary Francis Pacheco is captured and executed at Nagasaki

Private schools near Bellaire in areas of Houston include Saint Agnes Academy, Strake Jesuit College Preparatory, St. Francis Episcopal Day School ( Texas ), and St. Thomas ' Episcopal School.

He was succeeded in the 1870s by Jesuit missionary Father Urban Grassi who built the St. Francis Xavier Mission in 1873.

In 1671 French Jesuit explorer Père Claude-Jean Allouez founded the St. Francis Xavier Mission at the last set of rapids on the Fox River before entering Lake Michigan.

Philip Francis Berrigan was born in Two Harbors, Minnesota, a Midwestern working class town, the younger brother of the Jesuit fellow-activist and poet, Daniel Berrigan.