Blessed Ignatius de Azevedo
- Also known as
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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
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Catholic Encyclopedia
Saint Joseph's University (stained glass window)
New Catholic Dictionary
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