José de Anchieta, Spanish missionary and saint (died 1597)

Joseph of Anchieta

Spanish Jesuit saint and missionary

José de Anchieta y Díaz de Clavijo, SJ was a Canarian Jesuit missionary to the Portuguese colony of Brazil in the second half of the 16th century. A highly influential figure in Brazil's history in the first century after its European discovery, Anchieta was one of the founders…