St. Joseph's Seminary and Church
Baroque church and seminary housing a bone relic of Saint Francis Xavier, co-founder of the Jesuits.
This guide to St. Joseph's Seminary and Church in Macau opens on a December night in 1552, when Francis Xavier died of fever on Shangchuan Island, in sight of the Chinese coast he had spent years trying to reach. It traces the decades-long journey of a bone relic sent back from his burial in Goa — first housed at the Church of Saint Paul, then moved after fire gutted that church in 1835, and again after decades in a small chapel on Coloane. The seminary beside this church was founded in 1728 by the same Jesuit order Xavier co-founded, to train Chinese priests for a mission he never lived to complete.
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