Events Tagged: "missions"

Buddhist missions sent - Ashoka sends monks to Sri Lanka, Southeast Asia, Greece, spreading Buddhism

St. Paul begins second missionary journey - travels through Asia Minor and Greece, establishes churches in Philippi, Thessalonica, Corinth

St. Gregory I the Great becomes sixty-fourth pope - sends Augustine to England, develops Gregorian chant

St. Francis Xavier arrives in Goa - begins Asian missions - Vision of Christ: 'Francis, how much did I suffer for men!' - Will baptize over 100,000 personally

St. Francis Xavier dies alone on island approaching China - Final words: 'In Te, Domine, speravi' - Body found incorrupt months later

Jesuit Relations from New France begin (1609-1614) - Detailed ethnographic accounts - Creates 'noble savage' as justification for cultural destruction

St. Isaac Jogues tortured by Mohawks - fingers cut off - Returns to missions: 'I would rather be tortured than idle' - Martyred 1646: 'Jesus, Jesus, Jesus'

St. Thérèse declared patroness of missions - Never left cloister but converts millions - Roses fall worldwide at her intercession