Aug 082012
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On 15 July 1583 the group met at the church of Orlim, and hiked to Cuncolim to erect a cross and choose land for a new church. Local anti-Christian pagans, seeing the unarmed Christians, gathered their weapons and marched on them. One of the parishioners, a Portuguese emigre named Gonçalo Rodrigues, carried a firearm, but Father Alphonsus Pacheco stopped him from using it. The pagans then fell upon them, and killed them all without mercy. They were -
- Alphonsus Pacheco
- Alphonsus the altar boy
- Anthony Francis
- Dominic of Cuncolim
- Francis Aranha
- Francis Rodrigues
- Gonçalo Rodrigues
- Paul da Costa
- Peter Berno
- Rudolph Acquaviva
- ten other native Christian converts whose names have not come down to us
- 1741 by Pope Benedict XIV (decree of martyrdom)
Additional Information
- Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
- Catholic Encyclopedia
- New Catholic Dictionary
- Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints
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