Blessed James Carvalho, SJBorn: Circa 1578 Died: February 22, 1624 Beatified: May 7, 1867 Fr Carvalho was born in Coimbra, Portugal. He entered the Coimbra Jesuit Novitiate in 1594. In 1600, he left Lisbon for Goa for his philosophy studies. A year later, he went to Macau to complete his philosophy and theology studies and…
Saint Robert Southwell, SJBorn: Between Oct & Dec 1561 Died : February 21, 1595 Beatified: December 15, 1929 Canonised: October 25, 1970 Fr Robert Southwell, a martyr of England, is one of the more illustrious English martyrs and one of its better poet. He was born of a well-to-do family at Horsham St Faith near…
Blessed John Sullivan, SJBorn: May 8, 1861 Died: February 19, 1933 Servant of God in September 1960 Venerable November 2014 Beatified 13 May 2017 John Sullivan was born in Dublin, Ireland. His father, Edward Sullivan was Ireland’s Lord Chancellor. Young John was brought up in his father’s Protestant faith. His mother, Elizabeth Baily, was a…
Servant of God John Cardim, SJBorn: June 2, 1585 Died: February 18, 1615 John Cardim, a Portuguese, was born in Torre de Moncorvo and was the oldest of ten children. His parents supervised their children’s religious upbringing so well that nine of them entered religious life. At thirteen, John was already reciting the rosary and…
Venerable Louis de la Puente, SJBorn: November 11, 1554 Died: February 16, 1622 Louis de La Puente, lived to be the most esteemed ascetical writer of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. From him countless priests and religious learned about the spiritual life through his books. He was born at Valladolid, Spain. At the age of…
Saint Claude La Colombiere, SJBorn : Febrauary 2, 1641 Died : February 15, 1682 Beatified : June 16, 1929 Canonized : May 31, 1992 Claude La Colombiere was born in southern France and studied grammar at a Jesuit school in Lyons before he was ten years old and before doing literature and philosophy. At seventeen,…
Servant of God Saturninus Ibarguren, SJBorn: February 11, 1856 Died: February 9, 1927 Fr Saturninus Ibarguren, a Basque, was born at Villareal de Urretxu, in the province of Guipuzcoa, Spain. After he had completed his studies in his hometown at the age of eighteen, he was enlisted into the army and was involved in the…
Venerable Philip Jeningen, SJBorn: January 5, 1642 Died: February 8, 1704 Philip Jeningen, the second son of the town’s mayor, was born in Eichstatt (modern day Bavaria), Germany. He attended the Jesuit school in his native city at the age of sixteen wanting to be a Jesuit. But because of parental opposition, he only became…
Saints Paul Miki, John de Goto & James Kasai, SJSt Paul Miki, SJ (1564~1597) St James Kisai, SJ (1533~1597) St John de Goto, SJ (1578~1597) Christianity experienced rapid growth during the forty-one years after St Francis Xavier’s coming to Japan. By 1590, there were about 200,000 Christians in Japan, most of whom lived in either…
Servant of God Pedro Arrupe, SJBorn: November 14, 1907 Died: February 5, 1991 Pedro Arrupe, a Spanish Basque and the Society’s twenty-eighth Superior General, was born in Bilbao, Spain. His architect father, Marcelino Arrupe was a man of very staunch faith and was responsible for establishing Spain’s first catholic daily, “La Gaceta del Norte.” Pedro…