Miracles of Saint Francis Xavier, after Peter Paul Rubens

The painter Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) received a commission for the original image of this oil in 1617 destined for the main altar of the Jesuit Church in Antwerp. The painting narrates a series of miracles attributed to the first Jesuit missionary in Asia: the resurrection of a man, the healing of a blind man and the destruction of the idols in Goa and those in other eastern provinces.

After the conversion of the painting to engraving, exactly as is shown in the British Museum of London, the scene reached other territories and on occasions it was inverted due to the printing process, as happened in this engraving found in the Arocena collection.