Blessed Alphonsus Pacheco
- Also known as
- Alfonso Pacheco
- Memorial
- 27 July
- Profile
- New Castilian nobility.
Joined the Jesuits on 8 September 1567.
In September 1574, he arrived in Goa, India as a missionary.
Priest.
Rector of Rachol in 1581.
Accompanied two punitive Portuguese expeditions against the pagans in the village of Cuncolim.
Martyred with
Blessed Rudolph Acquaviva, Blessed Anthony Francis, Blessed Francis Aranha, and Blessed Peter Berno.
One of the Martyrs of Cuncolim.
- Born
- c.1551 at Minaya, Catalonia
- Died
- hacked to death by scimitars and spears on 25 July 1583 on Salsette near Goa;
body thrown into a well;
water from the well was reputed to have healing properties;
the body was fished out after two and a half days, showed no decomposition, and was buried at the church of Our Lady of the Snows at Rachol;
relocated to the college of Saint Paul at Goa in 1597;
an arm and a leg were returned to his family in Europe in 1609;
remains relocated to the cathedral of Old Goa in 1862
- Beatified
- 16 April 1893
- Canonized
- pending
- Additional Information
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Catholic Encyclopedia
Kirken i Norge norwegian
Martyrs of Concolim
New Catholic Dictionary
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