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These early missionaries, who were led by the Franciscan friar Junípero Serra, were all tough and courageous men, who faced hunger and hardship when their first agricultural efforts failed.
The small Chapel of St. Francis Xavier is dedicated to the 16th-century patron saint of missionaries, and has on display the elbow of the saint, along with the bones of numerous Japanese and Vietnamese martyrs.
The Internet is frothing with missionaries bent on using the codes to woo unbelievers.
Portuguese merchants arrived in Kagoshima in 1543, with the missionaries of St. Francis Xavier following close behind.
In 1543 Portuguese explorers reached Tanegashima Island, off southern Kyushu, followed over the next decade by Portuguese traders and Jesuit missionaries, headed by St Francis Xavier, who landed at Kagoshima in 1549.