1977 Hollywood is given up and the Chapel and Old School building are re-conditioned and re-opened, 1,000 boys on roll. 1988 October – Remaining school, boys and staff, spend a week in Italy to mark forthcoming closure. In 1545 he travelled further east, to the Malay Peninsula and the East Indian Islands. He returned to Goa, but set out again in 1549 for Japan, rarely visited by Europeans. In Japan Francis Xavier had less success than in India, so he changed his non gamstop casinos tactics.

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• He returned to India in 1552, but then made plans to travel to China, a land forbidden to foreigners.

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• In 1545 he travelled further east, to the Malay Peninsula and the East Indian Islands.

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• They gave him hospitality and opportunities to preach and to found Christian settlements.
• He lived with the poor, sleeping on the ground and living on rice and water.
• In the next three years he converted many thousands to Christianity in Goa, Southern India and modern Sri Lanka.

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• 1977 Hollywood is given up and the Chapel and Old School building are re-conditioned and re-opened, 1,000 boys on roll.

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In the next three years he converted many thousands to Christianity in Goa, Southern India and modern Sri Lanka. He lived with the poor, sleeping on the ground and living on rice and water. He learned local languages, he taught and preached with enthusiasm. So successful was his work, that he sometimes became physically exhausted baptising crowds of people. As he departed each settlement, he left priests to carry on his work.

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He dressed more formally, and took European presents, like clocks, to the local rulers. They gave him hospitality and opportunities to preach and to found Christian settlements. He returned to India in 1552, but then made plans to travel to China, a land forbidden to foreigners. He set out from Lisbon, sailed round the Southern Cape of Africa, and crossed the Indian Ocean to Goa, where he landed in 1542.