SM-November

Venerable Bernard Francis de Hoyos, SJBorn: August 21, 1711 Died: November 29, 1735 Bernard was born in Torrelobaton, near Valladolid, Spain. He attended the Jesuit school in Medina del Campo in 1721 and a year later entered their school at Villagarcia. As the Jesuit novitiate was next door, he applied for admission after obtaining his…

Saint John Berchmans, SJBorn : March 13, 1599 Died : August 13, 1621 Beatified : May 9, 1865 Canonised : January 15, 1888 Feast: 26 November (until 1969) 13 August (after 1969) St John Berchmans was born in Diest, Belgium of very pious parents. His father was a shoemaker and three of their five children…

Venerable Edward Mico, SJBorn: circa 1647 Died: 24 November 1678 Edward Mico was born in Essex, England of Catholic parents. At the age of about fifteen, he enrolled at the English College in Saint-Omer, Flanders and about four years later, he went to the English College in Rome. There Edward became acquainted with the Jesuits…

Blessed Miguel Pro, SJBorn : January 13, 1891 Died : November 23, 1927 Beatified :September 25, 1988 Miguel Pro was born in Guadalupe de Zacatecas, Mexico, and the son of a mining engineer. At fifteen he went to work in his father’s office in the Division of Mines until he was twenty. He was so…

Servant of God Fr Hernando de Santaren & Companions, SJMartyrs of Mexico Died: November 16 to 20, 1616 The lives of eight Jesuit priests came to an abrupt and when they were martyred by the Tepehuan Indians living in northwestern Mexico (today’s Durango) between November 16 and 20, 1616. Some of the Tepehuan had been…

Servant of God Joseph Mark Fiqueroa, SJBorn: October 7, 1865 Died: November 19, 1942 Joseph Figueroa was born in the tiny village of Tinajo, on the island of Lanzarote, in the Canary Islands. His father was a farmer but because farming on the island was difficult and he wanted to offer his children a better…

Blessed Leonard Kimura, SJBorn: 1575 Died: Nov 18, 1619 Beatified: May 7, 1867 Bl Leonard Kimura belonged to the distinguished Kimura family. His grandfather was the first Japanese to receive the waters of baptism from St Francis Xavier when the latter visited the island of Hirado off Japan’s western shore in Oct 1550 and was…

Saints Alfonsus Rodriguez, Roch Gonzalez and John Del Castillo, SJ ST ALFONSUS RODRIGUEZ, SJ Born : Mar 10, 1598 ROCH GONZALEZ, SJ Born : 1576 Died : Nov 15, 1628 ST JOHN DEL CASTILLO, SJ Born : Sep 14, 1596 Died : Nov 17, 1628 Canonised : May 16, 1988 Saints Roch Gonzalez, Alfonsus Rodriguez…

Blessed Gaius, SJBorn : 1552 Died : Nov 15, 1624 Beatified : May 7, 1867 Gaius was a youth when his Korean parents offered him to a Buddhist monastery to begin life as a monk. He became dissatisfied with Buddhist teachings about God and left the community and went to live as a hermit in…

Saint Joseph Pignatelli , SJBorn: December 27, 1737 Died: November 15, 1811 Beatified: May 21, 1933 Canonized: June 12, 1954 St Joseph Pignatelli was born in Saragossa, Spain, of noble descent. His mother died when he was six, and his father moved with the younger children to Naples but within four years his father also…