SM-April

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…

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…

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, 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, 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…

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…

April 20th - Servant of God Francis Gaetano, SJBorn: November 11, 1569 Died: April 20, 1601 Francis Gaetano, the second son of the Count of Sortino and Cassaro, was born at Sortino, near Syracuse, in Sicily. As the son of Spain’s and Sicily’s most illustrious families, Francis was trained as a knight and was adept…

April 15th - Servant of God Peter Barbaric, SJBorn: May 19, 1874 Died: April 15, 1897 Peter Barbaric, a Croatian, was born in the small hamlet of Siljevista, near the village of Klobuk in Bosnia-Herzegovina. He was one of nine children whose parents, his first teachers, taught him not only Catechism, but also gave him…

April 13th - Servant of God Emmanuel Garcia Nieto, SJBorn: April 5, 1894 Died: April 13,1974 Emmanuel was born in the small town of Macotera in the Spanish province of Salamanca. He was the youngest of nine children and had his early education in the local public school. When he was fourteen he told his…

April 12th - Venerable Bruno Bruni, SJ and Venerable Louis Cardeira, SJVenerable Bruno Bruni Born: November 7, 1590 Died: April 12, 1640 SJ Venerable Louis Cardeira, SJ Born : 1585: Died : April 12, 1640 Cause introduced in Rome on June 19, 1902 Ethiopian Christian Martyrs Frs Bruno Bruni and Louis Cardeira were the last…