Angèle Regnier says travelling the country with the 465-year-old severed right forearm of St. Francis Xavier will be "like ... she'll set off on her cross-country tour — again, by air ...

The relic of St. Francis Xavier, whose body lies in Goa ... delivering holy communion while levitating. By one account, a crab recovered his crucifix after he dropped it into the sea.

In a map of the Philippines drawn up by the Jesuit Murillo Velarde and engraved by the Filipino Nicolas de la Cruz Bagay in 1744, my attention was riveted by St. Francis ... shore, a crab emerged from ...