The visit of the Jesuit priest to Setúbal, in the first half of the 1703th century, when he left for the East on a mission of evangelization, marked the Sadina population to the point that they asked to be proclaimed patron saint of the city, a fact that took place in XNUMX.
Francisco Xavier was born on April 7, 1506, in the region of Navarra, near the French Pyrenees, and died on the Chinese island of Sanchoão on December 3, 1552. He was canonized in 1622.