Galeote Pereira was a 16th-century Portuguese soldier of fortune. He spent several years in China's Fujian and Guangxi province after being captured by the Chinese authorities in an anti-smuggling ope
The restored Quanshan Gate of Quanzhou. Pereira and his fellow prisoners may have been carried through (an earlier incarnation of) this gate on their way to Fuzhou.
Shangchuan Island is the main island of Chuanshan Archipelago on the southern coast of Guangdong, China.
Flying Sand Beach (飞沙滩) on the eastern coast of Shangchuan Island.
Painting of the death of St. Francis Xavier by Francisco Goya.
Plan of the Chapel of the Tomb of St Francis Xavier at Shangchuan Dao, by Achille-Antoine Hermitte. Completed in 1869.