Chapel Of St Francis Xavier

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    Avenida de Cinco de Outubro, Coloane Island
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This delightful little church on the waterfront was built in 1928 to honour St Francis Xavier, a missionary in Japan. For many years a fragment of the saint's arm bone was kept in the chapel, but it has now been moved to St Joseph Seminary on the Macau Peninsula. Have a look in the room to the right of the chapel, where an interesting painting of a Kum Iam-like Virgin Mary is on display.

Today Japanese Catholics still come to Coloane to pay their respects. In front of the chapel are a monument and fountain surrounded by four cannonballs that commemorate the successful - and final - routing of pirates in 1910.