[Loch-Ruadh] Today in History April 7
STEVE K ROURKE
SROURKE at prodigy.net
Sun Apr 7 20:40:45 PDT 2002
Born:
1506 St Francis Xavier Jesuit missionary to India, Malaya, & Japan
Deaths:
30 Jesus crucified by Roman troops in Jerusalem (scholars' estimate)
1614 El Greco Spanish painter, dies (birth date unknown)
Other Events:
1541 Spanish founder of the Jesuits Francis Xavier, 35, and three friends
set sail from Lisbon, Portugal for Goa. They became the first Roman Catholic
missionaries to travel to India.
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