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The Great Cloud of Witnesses

Martyred Jesuit Missionaries of Brazil
Fr. Lawrence Jagdfeld, O.F.M.

Martyred Jesuit Missionaries of Brazil

July 15

A band of forty Spanish, Portugese and French Jesuit missionaries martyred by the Huguenot pirate Jacques Sourie while en route to Brazil. They are Aleixo Delgado, Alonso de Baena, Alvaro Borralho Mendes, Amaro Vaz, André Gonçalves, António Correia, Antônio Fernandes, António Soares, Bento de Castro, Brás Ribeiro, Diogo de Andrade, Diogo Pires Mimoso, Domingos Fernandes, Esteban Zuraire, Fernando Sánchez, Francisco Alvares, Francisco de Magalhães, Francisco Pérez Godoy, Gaspar Alvarez, Gonçalo Henriques, Gregorio Escribano, Ignatius de Azevedo, João Fernandes, Juan de Mayorga, Juan de San Martín, Juan de Zafra, Luís Correia, Luís Rodrigues, Manuel Alvares, Manuel Fernandes, Manuel Pacheco, Manuel Rodrigues, Marcos Caldeira, Nicolau Dinis, Pedro de Fontoura, Pedro Nunes, Simão da Costa, and Simão Lopes. They were martyred on 15 and 16 July 1570. They are remembered on the 15th of July.

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