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Servant of God (SG) Joseph Picco, SJ Born: July 4, 1867 Died: August 31, 1946 Joseph Picco was born at Nole Canavese, near Turin, in northern Italy and was the third of ten children. He received his early education from his uncle, the parish priest and enrolled at the apostolic school of Canon Ortalda in…

Saint Edmund Arrowsmith, SJBorn: 1585 Died: August 28, 1628 Canonized: December 15, 1929 Canonized: October 25, 1970 Saint Edmund Arrowsmith, SJ, (1585 – 28 August 1628) is one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Walesof the Catholic Church. The main source of information on St Edmund is a contemporary account written by an eyewitness and published a short…

Saint David Lewis, SJ Born: 1616 Died: August 27, 1679 Beatified: December 15, 1929 Canonized: October 25, 1970 David Lewis, a Welshman, was born in Abergevenny, Gwent, the youngest of 9 children to a Protestant father and a Catholic mother. He was raised as a Protestant and studied at the Royal Grammar School where his…

Venerable Aloysius Mary Solari, SJ also Agostino Solari (Luigi Maria) Born: May 13, 1795 Died: August 27, 1829 Aloysius Solari (baptismal name was Augustine) was born in Chiavari, in northern Italy. At the age of eleven, his father sent him to a Savona school operated by the Vincentians hoping that he would change from his…

Blessed Michael Carvalho, SJ - Japanese MartyrBorn: 1579 Died: August 25, 1624 Beatified : May 7, 1867 Michael Carvalho was born in Braga, Portugal in 1579. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1597 when he was eighteen and started his noviceship in Coimbra, Portugal. He yearned to go on the Japanese mission and in…

Jesuits Servants of GodMartin Santaella,SJ: Born : February 3, 1873. Died: August 27, 1936 Alphonsus Payan,SJ : Born: February 20, 1877. Died: August 31, 1936 Emmanuel Luque, SJ : Born: December 28, 1856. Died: August 31, 1936 Martin Santaella Gutierrez was born in Montefrio, in the province of Granada. He studied at the diocesan seminary…

Servant of God: Andrew Carrio, SJBorn: November 30, 1876 Died: August 25, 1936 Andrew Carrio was born in Sallent, near Barcelona. He entered the Jesuit novitiate outside Saragossa on September 10, 1891 when he was fifteen and after his noviceship, he continued with classical studies and philosophy. After one year into philosophy he was sent…

Servant of God: Thomas Sitjar,SJ and 10 CompanionsBorn: March 21, 1866 Died: August 19th 1936 Fr Thomas Sitjar and his six fellow Jesuits and four Jesuit brothers became the Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War when they gave their lives for God in Gandia and Valencia, Spain between August 19 and December 29, 1936. Fr Thomas…

Saint Albert Hurtado Cruchaga, SJBorn: January22, 1901 Died: August 18, 1952 Beatified: October 16, 1995 Canonised: October 23, 2005 Fr Albert was born in Vina del Mar, Chile. Although his parents were of an old aristocratic family, they were without wealth and lived on a small estate. His father died when Albert was only four,…

Servant of God: Charles Odescalchi, SJBorn: March 5, 17 86 Died: August 17, 1841 Trail, Agnes Xavier; Cardinal Carlo Odescalchi (1785-1841); Scottish Catholic Archives; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/cardinal-carlo-odescalchi-17851841-186140 Fr Charles Odescalchi was a cardinal of the Roman Church for fifteen years before he resigned from his rank and exchanged his robes for the Jesuits’ simple cassock. He was…