S.G. Francis Mary Galluzzi, SJBorn : Jan 9, 1671 Died: Sept 7, 1731 Francis Mary Galluzzi was born in Florence, Italy. He attended the Jesuit school of San Giovannino there and entered the Roman novitiate of Sant’ Andrea at seventeen. He took his simple vows two years later and began his study of the humanities,…
Blessed Ralph Corby, SJBorn : Around 1570 Died : September 7, 1627 Beatified: May 7, 1867 Ralph Corby was born in Ireland, in Maynooth Castle, the home of the Earl of Kildare, where his English parents took up service after they fled their native County Durham because Catholicism was being persecuted there. When Ralph was…
Blessed Thomas Tsuji, SJBorn : Around 1570 Died : September 7, 1627 Beatified: May 7, 1867 Fr Thomas Tsuji was born in Sonogi, near Omura of a noble family. He received his early education from the Jesuits in Arima and entered the Society in January 1589. He was ordained a Jesuit in Nagasaki sometime before…
Blessed Alexander Lanfant, SJ & 8 Companions, SJBlessed Alexander Lanfant, SJ 1726 – 1792 & 8 Companions Died: September 3 -5, 1792 Beatified : October 17, 1926 After the dreadful massacre on September 2, 1792 of more than a hundred of the nonjuring priests imprisoned at the Abbey of Saint-Germaine-des-Pres and the Carmelite monastery, the…
Blessed Anthony Ixida, SJBorn: 1570 Died: September 3, 1632 Beatified : May 7, 1867 Anthony Ishida (Ixida) was born in Shimabara, of Catholic parents whose Portuguese name was Pinto. He studied at the Jesuit seminary at Arima and worked for a time as a catechist with the Jesuits. He entered the Society as a novice…
Blessed James Bonnaud, William Defraud & 12 Companions, SJBlessed James Bonnaud, SJ 1740 – 1792, Blessed William Defraud, SJ 1733 – 1792 & 12 Companions Died : September 2, 1792 Beatified: October 26, 1926 Blessed James Bonnaud and William Defraud and his 12 Companions were the 23 French Jesuits who were among the 191 French…
Servant of God (SG) Joseph Picco, SJ Born: July 4, 1867 Died: August 31, 1946 Joseph Picco was born at Nole Canavese, near Turin, in northern Italy and was the third of ten children. He received his early education from his uncle, the parish priest and enrolled at the apostolic school of Canon Ortalda in…
Saint Edmund Arrowsmith, SJBorn: 1585 Died: August 28, 1628 Canonized: December 15, 1929 Canonized: October 25, 1970 Saint Edmund Arrowsmith, SJ, (1585 – 28 August 1628) is one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Walesof the Catholic Church. The main source of information on St Edmund is a contemporary account written by an eyewitness and published a short…
Saint David Lewis, SJ Born: 1616 Died: August 27, 1679 Beatified: December 15, 1929 Canonized: October 25, 1970 David Lewis, a Welshman, was born in Abergevenny, Gwent, the youngest of 9 children to a Protestant father and a Catholic mother. He was raised as a Protestant and studied at the Royal Grammar School where his…
Venerable Aloysius Mary Solari, SJ also Agostino Solari (Luigi Maria) Born: May 13, 1795 Died: August 27, 1829 Aloysius Solari (baptismal name was Augustine) was born in Chiavari, in northern Italy. At the age of eleven, his father sent him to a Savona school operated by the Vincentians hoping that he would change from his…