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May 11th: St. Francis Jerome de Geronimo , SJ

May 11th - Saint Francis Jerome de Geronimo , SJDied : May 11, 1716 Beatified : May 2, 1806 Canonized : May 26, 1839 Francis Jerome, the first of eleven children in the De Geronimo family was born in 1642, in Grottaglie, near Taranto, in southern Italy. Around the age of ten he went to…

May 10th: Servant of God: Stephen Le Fevre, SJ

May 10th - Servant of God: Stephen Le Fevre, SJBorn:February 14, 1597 Died : May 10, 1657 Catholic church in Shanxi Stephen Le Favre, the first French Jesuit assigned to the Chinese mission was born in Mourieres, near Avignon in France. His desire to be a priest started when he was very young, but his…

May 8th: Servant of God: John Philip Roothaan, SJ

May 8th - Servant of God: John Philip Roothaan, SJ Born: November 23, 1785 Died: May 8, 1853 Fr John Philip Roothaan, the twenty-first general of the Society of Jesus, was born in Amsterdam, Holland in 1785 when the Society was in its twelfth year of suppression due to political pressure from several European rulers.…

May 4th: St. Joseph Mario Rubio, SJ

May 4th - Saint Joseph Mario Rubio, SJDied : May 2, 1929 Beatified : October 6, 1985 Canonized : May 4, 2003 Joseph Mario Rubio was born at Dalias, in the province of Almeria, Southern Spain in 1864. At the tender age of eleven, he went to the city of Almeria to begin his studies;…

April 30th :Venerable Abraham de Georgiis, SJ

April 30th - Venerable Abraham de Georgiis, SJBorn: 1563 Died: April 30, 1595 Cause introduced in 1902 Fr Abraham de Georgiis, the first of the eight Jesuit martyrs of Ethiopia to die for Christ, was born in Aleppo, Syria. A Maronite Christian, he went to Rome for his studies and there entered the Jesuit novitiate…

April 27th : St. Peter Canisius, SJ

Saint Peter Canisius, SJBorn : May 8, 15 21 Died : December 21, 1597 Beatified : 1864 Feast Day : 27th April Canonized : May 21, 19 25 Peter Canisius was born in Nijmegen, though a Dutch town today, was at the time of his birth in the ecclesiastical province of Cologne, had the rights…

April 28th : Venerable Emmanuel Padial, SJ

Venerable Emmanuel Padial, SJBorn :April 15, 1661 Died : April 28, 1725 Emmanuel Padial, the youngest of seven children was born on Good Friday in Granada, Spain. He studied at the Jesuit College and at twenty, upon completing his courses in philosophy and theology; he entered the Jesuit novitiate in Seville. During his early years…

April 25th : Venerables Gaspar Pais, SJ and John Pereira, SJ

April 25th - Venerables Gaspar Pais, SJ and John Pereira, SJVenerable Gaspar Pais, SJ Born: 1593 Died: April 25, 1635 Venerable John Pereira, SJ Born: 1601 Died: May 2, 1635 About half a century after the unsuccessful first Jesuit mission in Ethiopia, headed by Bishop Andrew de Oveida, the Jesuits under Fr Pedro Paez met…

April 25th : Servant of God Adalbert Mary Baudiss, SJ

April 25th - Servant of God Adalbert Mary Baudiss, SJBorn: April 14, 1842 Died: April 25, 1926 Adalbert Mary Baudiss was born in the town of Bojany na Bukowinie, in Lwow. As a youth he studied at the Jesuit school in Lwow, and served Mass at the Jesuit church of Sts Peter and Paul, where…

April 20th : Blessed Francis Page, SJ

Blessed Francis Page, SJBorn : Date unknown Died : April 1602 Feast Day : April 20 Beatified : December 15, 1929 Francis Page was born in Antwerp of well-to-do English Protestant parents. As a young man he embarked on a lawyer’s career and went to London to study law. He fell in love with the…