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Spanish Jesuit missionary. He went to the
Portuguese colonies in the East Indies,
arriving at Goa in 1542. He was in Japan
1549-51, establishing a Christian mission
that lasted for 100 years. He returned to Goa
in 1552, and sailed for China, but died of
fever there. He was canonized in 1622.