Blessed Ignatius de Azevedo

Also known as: Ignatio de Azevedo
Inácio de Azevedo
Memorial: 15 July
Profile: Joined the Jesuits at Coimbra, Portugal on 28 December 1548. Priest. Rector of the Jesuit college at Lisbon, Portugal. Jesuit provincial for Portugal. Rector at Broja. Leader of a band of forty Spanish and Portugese Jesuit missionaries martyred by the Huguenot pirate Jacques Sourie while en route to Brazil.
Born: 1526 at Oporto, Portugal
Died: drowned 15 July 1570 near Palma, Canary Islands
Name Meaning: fiery (latin: igneus)
Beatified: 11 May 1854
Canonized: pending; if you have information relevant to the canonization of Blessed Ignatius, contact:
   Província Jesuita do Brasil Centro-Leste
   C.P. 310
   20001-970 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, BRAZIL
Representation: standing on a ship's deck, holding up an image of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Additional Information: Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Catholic Encyclopedia
New Catholic Dictionary
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
Saint Joseph's University (stained glass window)
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