Word: goa
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Greatest of missionaries since Apostolic times was, in Roman Catholic opinion, St. Francis Xavier, who helped to found the Society of Jesus, who died in 1552 on an island near China. His body was placed in the Church of Bom Jesus in Goa. Portuguese India. Canonized in 1622. through him were performed miracles which church authorities recognize as "stupendous." Last month the embalmed corpse of St. Francis Xavier was exposed, for the 13th time since his death, for public veneration. It was declared to be in good condition (TIME, Dec. 14). Last week it was replaced in its silver sarcophagus...
...Goa. Guns boomed, bells pealed, fireworks flared in Goa, Portuguese India last week as 10,000 persons milled through the Bom Jesus Church to kiss the feet of St. Francis Xavier, whose coffin was opened for public veneration for the 13th time since his death in 1552. The corpse was officially reported to be "in good condition." During the next month a million pilgrims are expected to view it. St. Francis Xavier, one of St. Ignatius Loyola's associates in founding the Society of Jesus, is regarded by his church as the greatest missionary since the time...
...matters little whether the pages are dull; he has published. And another step toward the Olympic goa! has been negotiated successfully. In the mean-time, the man who came to Harvard to sit at the feet of her Great Men sits in Widener. He turns the pages of their latest opera. In a little while there will be more to take their place...