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By Austin Cline, About.com Guide to Atheism since 1998

This Date in History: Saint Francis Xavier

Wednesday April 7, 2004
April 07, 1541: Saint Francis Xavier, one of the first members of the Jesuits, set sail from Lisbon, Portugal with three friends. They would become the first Roman Catholic missionaries to travel to India.

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