Jesuit Martyrs of Paraguay

Profile: Jesuit missionaries who worked to convert the natives Brazil and Paraguay, and who were so successful that they were martyred by a local witch doctor whose power base they were eroding.

Alphonsus Rodriquez

John de Castillo

Rocco Gonzalez
Died: martyred in 1628 at Caaro, Brazil
Beatified: 1934
Canonized: 1988 by Pope John Paul II