The portrait of the Saint is from the "Vida" of Orazio Torsellino S.J.(1596) and is reported to compare well with a drawing made in 1859 after an examination of his body by a committee of medical men in Goa.

- (From Chapter XXXII -Vasco Da Gama and His Successors 1460-1580 by K.G. Jayne pub 1910).

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The figure of Francis Xavier, as it appears in the Jesuit histories, is larger than human. But the true secret of his mastery over men seems to have lain less in his prestige and ability than in a certain sweetness of temperament, as impossible to recapture and dissect as the vanished scent of a flower…. It was this charm which made him more than a great Churchman and a saint - which won him the hearts of children, lepers and pirates.