SM-December

Servant of God Peter Mayoral, SJBorn : Oct 16,1678 Died : Dec 9, 1754 Peter Mayoral, a famous Chilean missionary, was born in Madrid, Spain and entered the Society at nineteen after he studied at the Jesuit college in Madrid. In 1698 he was sent to Buenos Aires for the mission in Chile where after…

Servant of God Louis Stephen Rabussier, SJBorn : Dec 12, 1831 Died : Dec 9, 1897 Louis Stephen Rabussier was born in Herblay, France and studied at the diocesan seminary in Versailles before joining the Society on September 6, 1851 at the novitiate in Saint-Acheul. After his first vows on Sep 1853, he taught in…

St. Noel Chabanel, SJBorn : Feb 2, 1613 Died : Dec 8, 1649 Beatified : Jun 21, 1925 Canonised : Jun 29, 1930 Noel Chabanel was born in Sagues, southern France. He entered the Society of Jesus at Toulouse at the age of seventeen and followed the prescribed course of studies for Jesuits and was…

St Charles Garnier, SJBorn : May 25, 1606 Died : Dec 7, 1649 Beatified : Jun 21, 1925 Canonised : Jun 29, 1930 St Charles Garnier was born in Paris of wealthy family. He received an excellent education and at 18 entered the Jesuit novitiate in Paris and studied philosophy and theology at Clermont College…

Servant of God Walter Ciszek, SJBorn: November 4, 1904 Died: December 8, 1984 Walter Ciszek was born in the small mining town of Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, to Polish immigrants who had emigrated to the United States in the 1890s. He studied at St Casmir’s parochial school and enjoyed more fun than books. A former gang member,…

Saint John Francis Regis, SJBorn : Jan 1, 1597 Died : Dec 12, 1640 Beatified : May 8, 1716 Canonised : Jun 16, 1737 St John Francis Regis was born in Fontcouverte in southern France. He was a crusader – his armour was his black cassock and the country to be reconquered was his own…

Blessed Jerome de Angelis, SJ and Simon Yemon, SJ Bl. Jerome de Angelis, SJ Born : 1567 Died : Dec 4,1580 Beatified : 1867 Bl. Simon Yemon, SJ Born : 1580 Died : Dec 4,1580 Beatified : 1867 Jerome de Angelis was born in Castrogiovanni (today’s Enna) in Sicily. He studied law in Palermo but…

Saint Alexander Briant, SJBorn : 1556 Died : Dec 1, 1581 Beatified : Dec 9, 1886 Canonised : Oct 25, 1970 by; or by Matthaus Greuter (Greuther); Paul Maupin (Maupain),print,published 1608 Alexander Briant was born in Somerset, England. He studied at Hart Hall, Oxford, where one of his teachers was Robert Persons who later became…

Saint Edmund Campion, SJBorn : January 25, 1540 Died : Dec 1, 1581 Beatified : Dec 9, 1886 Canonised : Oct 25, 1970 St Edmund was born in London of Catholic parents who later turned Protestant. He received his early education in Christ-Church Hospital where as a 13-year old schoolboy he was chosen to read…

Patron of the Missions & MissionariesBorn : April 7, 1506 Died : Dec 3, 1552 Beatified : Oct 21, 1619 Canonised : Mar 22, 1622 St Francis Xavier, the fifth and youngest child of Juan de Jassu and Maria de Azpilcueta was born in the family castle in Navarre, Spain. He received his early education…