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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CjRox" data-source="post: 3026012" data-attributes="member: 71790">St. Francis Xavier <a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE0DB163BF936A15752C0A96E958260&sec=&spon=" target="_blank">http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE0DB163BF936A15752C0A96E958260&sec=&spon=</a>  Published: January 25, 1998 To the Editor: I would add a fact to Martha Stevenson Olson's very fine article about Goa and its Catholic history (''Beaches for Saints and Sinners,'' Nov. 30). While most of St. Francis Xavier's body is indeed on view in Goa, his right arm, used to bless and baptize countless thousands, was removed and sent to Rome. St. Francis's arm can be seen in a silver reliquary above a side altar in the Church of the Gesu on the Via del Plebiscito. The Gesu is the primary church of the Society of Jesus, or Jesuits, in Rome. The remains of the founder of the Jesuits, St. Ignatius of Loyola, are in a coffin above another side altar. His remains, however, cannot be seen through the coffin.</blockquote>

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