deaths
November 15, 1628
Roque González de Santa Cruz, Paraguayan missionary and martyr (born 1576)

Roque González y de Santa Cruz
Roque González de Santa Cruz, SJ was a Guaraní-Spanish Jesuit priest who was the first missionary among the Guarani in Paraguay. He was murdered in 1628 and is venerated as a martyr and a saint by the Catholic Church.