ALSO SEE Churches of Goa: 5 Churches in and around Panaji The Basilica of Bom Jesus is most famous for holding the mortal remains of St. Francis Xavier. St Francis is considered the patron saint ...

About 700 people, mostly Catholics, marched through Old Goa, the colonial-era Portuguese capital, to protest a government plan for a tourism project near the Bom Jesus Basilica, the 16th-century ...

Francis Xavier's impact resonates to this day. His incorrupt body, which miraculously remains preserved, lies in a silver casket at the Basilica of Bom Jesus in Goa, a Unesco World Heritage Site.