Goa was conquered by Albuquerque in 1510, and became the capital of the Portuguese East Indies. Churches and convents were soon built. In 1542 the Jesuit missionary St Francis Xavier (1506-1552) arrived at Goa. Canonized in 1622, his body remains in a shrine at the Church of Bom Jesus. The capital was transferred in 1759 to Panjim, after several epidemics. In 1961 the Portuguese left Goa and it became part of India.