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Servant of God (SG) Igino Lega, SJBorn :October 9, 1879 Died : March 25, 1962 Felix, the tenth of eleven children, was born in the small village of Caviola di Falcade, in the heart of Italy’s Dolomites. He studied at the elementary school operated by his maternal uncle in a nearby village. Later he and…

Servant of God (SG) Igino Lega, SJBorn :November 14, 1911 Died : March 21, 1951 Igino Lega was born in Brisighella , near Ravenna, Italy and was the ninth of eleven children of an old and noble family. His father was a prosperous lawyer and one of his uncles was Cardinal Michele Lega, Prefect of…

Saint Gabriel Lalemant, SJBorn :October 10, 1632 Died : March 17, 1649 Beatified : June 21, 1925 Canonized : June 29, 1930 Gabriel Lalemant was born in Paris and educated at Clermont College. He entered the Jesuit novitiate at nineteen. He had a burning desire to serve as a missionary in New France and when…

Saint John de Brebeuf, SJBorn : March 25, 1593 Died : March 16, 1649 Beatified : June 21, 1925 Canonized : June 29, 1930 John de Brebeuf was born in the diocese of Bayeux in Normandy, France. At the age of twenty four he entered the Jesuit novitiate in Rouen after completing his university studies.…

Servant of God (SG), Goncalo da Silveira, SJBorn :February 23, 1526 Died : March 15, 1561 Fr Goncalo da Silveira, the Society’s first martyr on the African continent, was born in Almeirim, near Lisbon, Portugal. He was the tenth child of the Count of Sortelha and was brought up for a position in the royal…

Saint Nicholas Owen, SJDied : March 2, 1606 Beatified : December 15, 1929 Canonized : October 25, 1970 Nicholas Owen was born in Oxford on an unrecorded date in the 16th century. His father was a carpenter and two of his three brothers were priests. His first association with the Jesuits was from 1580 to…

Servant of God (SG), Francisco Eusebio Kino, SJBorn : Around August 10, 1645 (his date of Baptism) Died : March 15, 1711 Eusebio was born in Segno, a village near Trent in northern Italy. He studied at the Jesuit school at Trent and won a scholarship to study at the college in Hall, near Innsbruck…