holidays

Christian feast day: Roch Gonzalez, Juan de Castillo, and Alonso Rodriguez, SJ

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Roch Gonzalez, Juan de Castillo, and Alonso Rodriguez, SJ from November 16, null

Roque González y de Santa Cruz

Paraguayan missionary

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.
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Jesuits

Male religious congregation of the Catholic Church

The Society of Jesus, also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits, is a religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rome. It was founded in 1540 by Ignatius of Loyola and six companions, with the approval of Pope Paul…
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