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The once-in-ten-year event, which lasts 45 days, starts on Nov. 21 this year in the former capital of Portuguese IndiaVisitors pray inside the Basilica of Bom Jesus in Goa, where the relics of St. Francis Xavier is kept inside a casket. The 45-day decennial exposition of the relics starts Nov. 21. Last-leg preparations are in full swing at the Basilica of Bom Jesu in Old Goa and nearby areas to receive an estimated 1 million Catholics for the exposition of the sacred relics of St Francis Xavier.
Francis Xavier was buried on an Island near Japan in 1552, and his body was found incorrupt when exhumed a year later to take it to Portugal, his home country. Organizers told UCA News that this year, the relics kept in the silver casket will be transported to the Se Cathedral, 450 meters away, in a specially adorned electric carriage, deviating from the practice of select Catholics carrying them on their shoulders.
"At the gate of Se Cathedral, the police team will lower the casket, and a group of 10 canons will carry it and place it inside the cathedral for public veneration,” Father Fernandes explained. He said the “ardent desire of the saint was to make Jesus known to the world, to baptize and save souls. The hand is a powerful image showing his great desire,” Father Furtado explained.
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