SM-May

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, 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 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 - 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;…