Saints & Martyrs

Blessed Michael Carvalho, SJ - Japanese MartyrBorn: 1579 Died: August 25, 1624 Beatified : May 7, 1867 Michael Carvalho was born in Braga, Portugal in 1579. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1597 when he was eighteen and started his noviceship in Coimbra, Portugal. He yearned to go on the Japanese mission and in…

Jesuits Servants of GodMartin Santaella,SJ: Born : February 3, 1873. Died: August 27, 1936 Alphonsus Payan,SJ : Born: February 20, 1877. Died: August 31, 1936 Emmanuel Luque, SJ : Born: December 28, 1856. Died: August 31, 1936 Martin Santaella Gutierrez was born in Montefrio, in the province of Granada. He studied at the diocesan seminary…

Servant of God: Andrew Carrio, SJBorn: November 30, 1876 Died: August 25, 1936 Andrew Carrio was born in Sallent, near Barcelona. He entered the Jesuit novitiate outside Saragossa on September 10, 1891 when he was fifteen and after his noviceship, he continued with classical studies and philosophy. After one year into philosophy he was sent…

Servant of God: Thomas Sitjar,SJ and 10 CompanionsBorn: March 21, 1866 Died: August 19th 1936 Fr Thomas Sitjar and his six fellow Jesuits and four Jesuit brothers became the Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War when they gave their lives for God in Gandia and Valencia, Spain between August 19 and December 29, 1936. Fr Thomas…

Saint Albert Hurtado Cruchaga, SJBorn: January22, 1901 Died: August 18, 1952 Beatified: October 16, 1995 Canonised: October 23, 2005 Fr Albert was born in Vina del Mar, Chile. Although his parents were of an old aristocratic family, they were without wealth and lived on a small estate. His father died when Albert was only four,…

Servant of God: Charles Odescalchi, SJBorn: March 5, 17 86 Died: August 17, 1841 Trail, Agnes Xavier; Cardinal Carlo Odescalchi (1785-1841); Scottish Catholic Archives; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/cardinal-carlo-odescalchi-17851841-186140 Fr Charles Odescalchi was a cardinal of the Roman Church for fifteen years before he resigned from his rank and exchanged his robes for the Jesuits’ simple cassock. He was…

Servant of God: SG Joachim Valenti; SJ. SG Louis Boguna, SJ; SG Joseph Verges, SJJoachim Valenti, SJ Born: October 17, 1884 Died: August 14, 1936 SG Louis Boguna, SJ Born: April 14, 1893 Died: August 14, 1936 SG Joseph Verges, SJ Born: January 10, 1898 Died: August 14, 1936 Fr Joachim Valenti was born in…

Venerable Brian Cansfield, SJBorn: 1582 Died: August 3, 1645 Declared Venerable in 1886 Brian Cansfield was born in Roberts Hall, Tatham, in Lancashire, England. He received his early education in the local school and his upbringing was Protestant. His brothers who were Catholics continually encouraged him to adopt their faith which he finally did at…

Blessed Peter Favre, SJBorn: April 13, 1506 Died: August 1 , 1546 Beatified: Sept 5, 1872 Peter Favre was born in Savoy, France and as a youth, he shepherded his father’s flock on the Alps. He had no education but was gifted with an extraordinary memory where he could hear a sermon in the morning…