Chapel of St. Francis Xavier

This guide to the Chapel of St. Francis Xavier in Macau starts with a 1910 pirate kidnapping on Coloane, when raiders seized eighteen children and Portugal answered with soldiers and a gunboat named after the city. It traces how the small yellow chapel built in 1928 to mark that battle came to hold, for nearly seventy years, the relics of seventy-three Japanese and Vietnamese Catholic martyrs alongside a bone from Saint Francis Xavier, the Jesuit missionary who carried Christianity across India and Japan in the 1500s. Stand before the pale yellow facade and consider the man it is named for, who set his sights on China from this coast.