This 16th-century Catholic missionary is the patron saint of Navarre, the Spanish region where he was born in 1506 and is celebrated there on December 3rd as a government holiday. His relics are venerated at the Espírito Santo Church in Margão, Goa. Which religious figure is this?

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Francis Xavier. Francis Xavier co-founded the Jesuits with Ignatius of Loyola and became one of the great Catholic missionaries of the age. He preached across India, Southeast Asia and Japan, dying in 1552 off the coast of China; his body was later enshrined in Goa.