Quo Fuit places 7 dated presences for Francis Xavier across 6 places, from 1506 to 1552.
Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Francis Xavier (born Francisco de Jasso y Azpilicueta; 7 April 1506 to 3 December 1552), venerated as Saint Francis Xavier, was a Navarrese cleric and missionary.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Francis Xavier was documented, and when
7 April 1506exact date
Kingdom of Navarreattested“Francis Xavier was born in the Castle of Xavier, in the Kingdom of Navarre, on 7 April 1506 into an influential noble family.”source: Wikipedia: Francis Xavier
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Collège Sainte-Barbeattested“In 1525, Francis went to study in Paris at the Collège Sainte-Barbe, University of Paris, where he spent the next eleven years.”source: Wikipedia: Francis Xavier
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Parisattested“In 1525, Francis went to study in Paris at the Collège Sainte-Barbe, University of Paris, where he spent the next eleven years.”source: Wikipedia: Francis Xavier
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Collattested“In 1525, Francis went to study in Paris at the Collège Sainte-Barbe, University of Paris, where he spent the next eleven years.”source: Wikipedia: Francis Xavier
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Collattested“In 1530, Francis received the degree of Master of Arts, and afterwards taught Aristotelian philosophy at the Collège de Beauvais, University of Paris.”source: Wikipedia: Francis Xavier
29 September 1549exact date
Kagoshimaattested“Shimazu Takahisa (1514–1571), daimyō of Satsuma, gave a friendly reception to Francis on 29 September 1549, but in the following year he forbade the conversion of his subjects to Christianity under penalty of death; Christians in Kagoshi…”source: Wikipedia: Francis Xavier
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Ming dynastyattested“He arrived back in Goa by early 1552 and planned to travel on to China.”source: Wikipedia: Francis Xavier
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Holy Seementioned“In 1540, King John III of Portugal had Pedro Mascarenhas, Portuguese ambassador to the Holy See, request Jesuit missionaries to spread the faith in his new possessions in India, where the king believed that Christian values were eroding…”source: Wikipedia: Francis Xavier
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Indiamentioned“In 1540, King John III of Portugal had Pedro Mascarenhas, Portuguese ambassador to the Holy See, request Jesuit missionaries to spread the faith in his new possessions in India, where the king believed that Christian values were eroding…”source: Wikipedia: Francis Xavier
June 1540month
Lisbonmentioned“Francis reached Lisbon in June 1540 and, four days after his arrival, he and Rodrigues were summoned to a private audience with King John and Queen Catherine.”source: Wikipedia: Francis Xavier
7 April 1541exact date
Lisbonmentioned“Francis Xavier left Lisbon on 7 April 1541, his thirty-fifth birthday, along with two other Jesuits and the new viceroy Martim Afonso de Sousa, on board the Santiago.”source: Wikipedia: Francis Xavier
6 May 1542exact date
Portuguese Mozambiquementioned“From August until March 1542 he remained in Portuguese Mozambique, and arrived in Goa, then the capital of Portuguese India, on 6 May 1542, thirteen months after leaving Lisbon.”source: Wikipedia: Francis Xavier
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Japanmentioned“The Portuguese first landed in 1543 on the island of Tanegashima, where they introduced matchlock firearms to Japan.”source: Wikipedia: Francis Xavier
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Makassarmentioned“He set his sights eastward in 1545 and planned a missionary journey to Makassar on the island of Celebes, today's Indonesia.”source: Wikipedia: Francis Xavier
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Malaccamentioned“Anjirō had heard of Francis in 1545 and had travelled from Kagoshima to Malacca to meet him.”source: Wikipedia: Francis Xavier
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Kagoshimamentioned“Anjirō had heard of Francis in 1545 and had travelled from Kagoshima to Malacca to meet him.”source: Wikipedia: Francis Xavier
January 1546month
Malaccamentioned“About January 1546, Xavier left Malacca for the Maluku Islands, where the Portuguese had some settlements.”source: Wikipedia: Francis Xavier
1547year
Ambon Islandmentioned“Shortly after Easter 1547, he returned to Ambon Island.”source: Wikipedia: Francis Xavier
December 1547month
Malaccamentioned“In Malacca in December 1547, Francis Xavier met a Japanese man named Anjirō.”source: Wikipedia: Francis Xavier
20 January 1548exact date
Romementioned“...All the Portuguese merchants coming from Japan tell me that if I go there I shall do great service for God our Lord, more than with the pagans of India, for they are a very reasonable people." (To His Companions Residing in Rome, From…”source: Wikipedia: Francis Xavier
20 January 1548exact date
Japanmentioned“...All the Portuguese merchants coming from Japan tell me that if I go there I shall do great service for God our Lord, more than with the pagans of India, for they are a very reasonable people." (To His Companions Residing in Rome, From…”source: Wikipedia: Francis Xavier
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