Fransisko Saveri

huko Goa, India, katika picha ya karne ya 19.]]

 ya familia ya Xavier.]]
 ya Mt. Fransisko SaverI", ilivyochorwa na Giovanni Battista Gaulli.]]
 katika kanisa la Hong Kong kikimchora akimbatiza Mchina.]]
,  Paris, alipoweka nadhiri zake.]]
 lake katika Basilika la Yesu Mwema huko Goa.]]
**Fransisko Saveri** (jina asili: **Francisco de Jasso y Azpilicueta**; Javier, Navarra, leo nchini Hispania, 7 Aprili 1506 - kisiwa cha Shangchuan, China, 3 Desemba 1552) alikuwa padri wa Shirika la Yesu, ambalo alichangia kulianzisha pamoja na Ignas wa Loyola.

Baadaye, akisukumwa na hamu yenye ari ya kueneza Injili, alimtangaza Kristo kwa bidii katika nchi nyingi za Ulaya, Afrika na Asia hata akawa kati ya wamisionari maarufu zaidi ya historia ya Kanisa. 

Baada ya kuwahubiria makabila mengi ya India, visiwa vya Maluku na vinginevyo, huko Japani aliongoa watu wengi kwenye imani ya Ukristo akafa hatimaye karibu na China bara, ameishiwa nguvu na maradhi na kazi nyingi. 

Alitangazwa na Papa Paulo V kuwa mwenye heri tarehe 25 Oktoba 1619, halafu Papa Gregori XV akamtangaza mtakatifu tarehe 12 Machi 1622.

Anaheshimiwa na Waanglikana na Walutheri pia.

Sikukuu yake huadhimishwa tarehe ya kifo chake

## Sala yake
Ee Mungu wa mataifa yote ya dunia,
uukumbuke umati wa Wapagani ambao,
ingawa waliumbwa kwa sura yako,
hawajakufahamu wewe wala kifo cha Mwanao Yesu Kristo, mwokozi wao.

Fanya kwamba, kwa sala na kazi za Kanisa lako takatifu,
wakombolewe kutoka ushirikina wote na utovu wa imani
wakaletwe kwenye ibada zako.

Kwa njia ya yule uliyemtuma awe ufufuo na uzima wa watu wote,
huyo Mwanao Yesu Kristo, Bwana wetu.

## Tazama pia
*Watakatifu wa Agano la Kale
*Orodha ya Watakatifu Wakristo
*Orodha ya Watakatifu wa Afrika
*Orodha ya Watakatifu Wafransisko

## Tanbihi
## Marejeo ya Kiswahili
* Masomo ya Breviari - Sikukuu za Bwana, za Bikira Maria na za Watakatifu - Ndanda Mission Press 1978, uk 446-448
* John Kabeya na wengine - Maisha ya Watakatifu – ed. T.M.P. Book Department – Tabora 1965, 1989, uk. 430-432
* Pd. Leandry Kimario, O.F.M.Cap. - Mfahamu Mtakatifu Somo Wako - Maisha ya Watakatifu wa Kila Siku pamoja na Watakatifu Wafransisko - Toleo la pili - Dar es Salaam 2021, uk. 372-373
* Maurice Soseleje, Kalendari yetu – Maisha ya Watakatifu – Toleo la pili – ed. Benedictine Publications Ndanda Peramiho – Peramiho 1986 – ISBN 9976-63-112-X, uk. 92

## Marejeo ya lugha nyingine
* Attwater, Donald. (1965) *A Dictionary of Saints*. Penguin Books, Middlesex, England. Reprint: 1981.
* Jou, Albert. (1984) *The Saint on a Mission*. Anand Press, Anand, India.

## Viungo vya nje
* "St. Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Confessor", ''Butler's Lives of the Saints*
* The Life and Miracles of St. Francis Xavier, Apostle and Missionary of the Indies 
*Basilica of Bom Jesus, Old Goa  The Shrine of Saint Francis Xavier
*Saint Francis Xavier University Antigonish, Nova Scotia
* The Life of St. Francis Xavier 
*The life and letters of St. Francis Xavier Francis Xavier, Saint, 1506-1552 Coleridge, Henry James, 1822-1893 London: Burns and Oates, (1872)
**Xavier's World''  website of Navarre Department of Education celebrating 500th anniversary of their patron saint's birth
*A critical view 
*St. Francis Xavier - Pictorial Biography 
**Saint François Xavier*  
*St. Francis of the Millennium 
**The Goa Jesuit Province of the Society of Jesus*: The Jesuits in Goa
**The Feast of St Francis Xavier in Goa* 
*Picture of Shangchuan island. The chapel marks the location of his death 
*Another picture of the church on Shangchuan island
*Old map of Shangchuan island 
*[The Miracles of St Francis Xavier by John Hardon, SJ(https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hardon)]
*St Francis Xavier: History of His Incorrupt Body 
*Brief History of St Francis Xavier 
*Saint Francis Xavier  at Patron Saints Index
*St Francis Xavier Catholic Parish in Brunswick, GA 
*St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Parkersburg, WV
*Yomiuri Shimbun: St. Francis Xavier &ndash; 90% name recognition amongst primary school students in Japan, 2008.
*Hidemi Mizuta, "Intercultural Contact in the Age of St. Francis Xavier" *Hiroshima Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities*, Vol.1 page.15-24