Francis Xavier: A Life in Letters
John Lukács · 2007
An English selection of Xavier's own correspondence, framed with concise historical commentary.
Further Reading
A curated register of books, archives, and further reading for those who would follow the missionary path of Saint Francis Xavier beyond these pages — into the deep water of the historical record.
John Lukács · 2007
An English selection of Xavier's own correspondence, framed with concise historical commentary.
Reuben Gold Thwaites (ed.) · 1896–1901
The classic documentary archive of Jesuit missionary enterprise, indispensable for early-modern Catholic expansion.
Georg Schurhammer, SJ · 1973
The monumental four-volume biography — the most exhaustive scholarly life of Xavier, covering Asia and the Society.
J. S. Cummins · 1998
Xavier's Asian missions in the cultural exchange between East and West.
Ines G. Županov · 1999
A study of Xavier's Goan mission and the conversion encounters of sixteenth-century India.
Diego Pacheco, SJ · 2004
An account of Xavier's arrival in Kagoshima and the first Christian century of Japan.
The central Jesuit repository holding Xavier's original letters and mission records.
Documents of Portuguese Estado da Índia that frame Xavier's Asian voyage.
Publicly scanned editions of seventeenth-century mission narratives and lives of Xavier.
Relics and exhibits of the Bom Jesus Basilica where Xavier's remains are venerated.
The founder's own account — the wellspring from which Xavier's vocation flowed.
Ignatius's foundational manual, the discipline Xavier carried into every harbor.
An accessible overview of the Order that sent Xavier eastward and sustained his legacy.
The wider story of the faith's first centuries in India, the Moluccas, and Japan.