Francis Xavier was one of the first Jesuits to come to the East as a missionary. Xavier was born on April 7, 1506, at the Château de Javier in the province of Navarre, Spain. At the age of 18, he entered the College of Saint-Barbey in Paris and received a comprehensive education. Due to his academic excellence, at the age of 22 he was appointed Aristotle Lecturer in Philosophy at the College of Beauvais and regarded as a scholar.

In 1540, Xavier became one of the first missionaries of the Jesuit Order and went to India, Japan and other places in the East to preach on the orders of the Holy See. After eight months of difficult sailing, he arrived in Goa, India in December 1541. Arrived in Japan in August 1549. In 1552, he went through great pains to find a ship and shipped it to China. Unfortunately, he contracted malaria. Due to lack of medicine, he died on December 3 at the age of 46. He was later buried in India, was canonized by the church in 1662, and his cemetery became a holy place of worship. In 1927, he was listed as the chief patron of foreign missionaries together with Saint Teresa the Little. In his more than ten years of evangelization career, he persuaded more than 30,000 people to be baptized into the Church. His evangelization journey exceeded thousands of miles and set foot in most of East Asia.