{"id":2582,"date":"2025-05-04T19:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T14:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/?p=2582"},"modified":"2025-05-04T19:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T14:21:09","slug":"q-consider-the-following-statements-151","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/upsc\/q-consider-the-following-statements-151","title":{"rendered":"Q. Consider the following statements:"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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  1. Francis Xavier was one of the founding members of the Jesuit Order.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Francis Xavier\u00a0died in Goa<\/strong>\u00a0and a church is dedicated to him there.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. The Feast of St. Francis Xavier is celebrated in Goa each year.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Which of the statements given above are correct?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    • 1 and 2 only<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • 2 and 3 only<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • 1 and 3 only<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • 1, 2 and 3<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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      Answer:<\/strong> (c) 1 and 3 only<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

      St. Francis Xavier (1506-1552)<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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      • Francis Xavier venerated as Saint Francis Xavier, was a\u00a0Catholic missionary and saint who was a co-founder of the Society of Jesus.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • He was born in Javier, Kingdom of Navarre (in present-day Spain), he was a companion of Ignatius of Loyola and\u00a0one of the first seven Jesuits.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • He led an\u00a0extensive mission into Asia, mainly in the Portuguese Empire<\/strong>\u00a0of the time and was influential in evangelization work,\u00a0most notably in India<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
        His works<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
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        • He has asked for a special minister to the king of Portugal whose sole office would be to further Christianity in Goa.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • He also was the\u00a0first Christian missionary to venture into Japan, Borneo, the Maluku Islands, and other areas.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • In those areas, struggling to learn the local languages and in the face of opposition, he had less success than he had enjoyed in India.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • Xavier was about to extend his missionary\u00a0preaching to China when he died on Shangchuan Island.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • Known as the \u201cApostle of the Indies<\/strong>\u201d and \u201cApostle of Japan<\/strong>\u201d, he is considered to be one of the greatest missionaries since Paul the Apostle.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • The Feast of St. Francis Xavier:<\/strong>\n
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          • The Feast of St. Francis Xavier is\u00a0observed on December 3rd each year in Goa.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
          • It is a regional\u00a0public holiday in the northern Spanish community of Navarra and the Indian state of Goa.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n
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            Francis Xavier<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

            Which of the statements given above are correct? Answer: (c) 1 and 3 only St. Francis Xavier (1506-1552) His works<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[42],"years":[52],"class_list":["post-2582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upsc","category-prelims","tag-modern-history","years-52"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"UPSC"},{"value":3,"label":"Prelims"}],"post_tag":[{"value":42,"label":"Modern History"}],"years":[{"value":52,"label":"2021"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"LotusArise","author_link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/author\/team-lotusarise"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"UPSC","slug":"upsc","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1269,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":1269,"category_description":"","cat_name":"UPSC","category_nicename":"upsc","category_parent":0},{"term_id":3,"name":"Prelims","slug":"prelims","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":1,"count":1251,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":1251,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Prelims","category_nicename":"prelims","category_parent":1}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":42,"name":"Modern History","slug":"modern-history","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":42,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":87,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2582"},{"taxonomy":"years","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/years?post=2582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}