SM-April

April 11th - Venerable Francis del Castillo, SJBorn : February 9, 1615 Died : April 11, 1673 Fr Francis del Castillo, revered by the people of Lima, Peru as the “Apostle of Lima” was born in Lima on February 9, 1615. He entered the Society of Jesus toward the end of 1632. He taught grammar…

April 11th - Servant of God Ferdinand de Huidobro, SJBorn: March 10, 1903 Died: April 11, 1937 Cause Initiated: November 19, 1947 Ferdinand de Huidobro Polanco was born at Santander, Spain. His father was a mining engineer and he was the sixth of nine children. When Ferdinand was five, his family moved to Melilla, North…

Blessed Ralph Ashley, SJ Born :Date Unknown Died : April 7, 1606 Beatified : December 15, 1929 Very little is known of Bro Ashley’s date and place of birth as well as his early life. He was the cook at the English College at Rheims, France and later in April 1590, he became the cook…

Blessed Edward Oldcorne, SJ Born : 1561 Died : April 7, 1606 Beatified : December 15, 1929 after Unknown artist, line engraving, 1608 Edward Oldcorne was born in York, England of a non-Catholic father and a Catholic mother. He gave up medical studies and enrolled at the English College in Rheims, France in 1581 before…

Saint Henry Walpole, SJBorn :Oct 1558 Died : April 7, 1595 Beatified : December 15, 1929 Canonized : October 25, 1970 Twenty-three-year-old Henry Walpole was among bystanders attending the execution of Fr Edmund Campion, a Jesuit martyr when a drop of the latter’s blood fell on his clothes from the quartered body. This so moved…

Blessed Robert Middleton, SJ Born :1571 Died : April 3, 1601 Beatified : November 22, 1987 Robert Middleton, an English martyr was born in York, England of a Catholic family. As a young man he followed the religion of the Established Church but he stopped because of his reading and his conscience and also inspired…