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Xavier
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Meaning
This man’s name—from Arabic ga’afar, ‘splendid’ (cf. the Giaffar of The Arabian Nights)—is obsolescent except among Roman Catholics, who, in using it, commemorate St. Francis Xavier, a noble Spaniard famed for his missions in the middle of the 16th Century to India, Ceylon, the East Indies, Japan and China.About
Origin:Basque,
Themes:Exotic,
