Saint Alonso Rodriguez
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- Also known as
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Alphonsus Rodriquez
Alphonso Rodriquez
- Memorial
- 17 November
- Profile
- Jesuit, ordained in 1624.
Missionary to Paraguay and Brazil.
With Saint Roch Gonzalez and Saint Juan de Castillo, he co-founded the "reduction" of the Assumption on the Ijuhi River.
In 1628 they established the All Saints mission in Caaro, Brazil.
Killed 15 days into his missionary work.
One of the Jesuit Martyrs of Paraguay, the first martyrs in the Americas to be beatified.
- Born
- 1598 in Segovia, Spain
- Died
- hacked to death with a tomahawk on 15 November 1628 at Caaro, Brazil
- Beatified
- 1934
- Canonized
- 1988 by Pope John Paul II
- Name Meaning
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noble ready
battle ready
ready to do good
- Patronage
- native traditions
- Additional Information
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Catholic Encyclopedia: Paraguay
John Paul II's Book of Saints
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