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Show Orient's First Mission Sancien island, scene of the establishment estab-lishment of the first Christian mission mis-sion in the Orient, is the land In which St. Francis Xavier established a mission in spite of efforts to keep him and his band out of the Orient. And on this island he lies buried. In late August, 1552, he landed on the island, called Chang-shuen-shan, off the coast of Kwangtung, which served as a rendezvous for Europeans. Euro-peans. Soon after his arrival Xavier was seized with a fever and died there. |