Jesuit Martyrs of Paraguay

Profile

Jesuit missionaries who worked to convert the natives Brazil and Paraguay, and who were so successful that they were martyred by a local witch doctor whose power base they were eroding.

• Alphonsus Rodriquez
• John de Castillo
• Rocco Gonzalez

Died

martyred in 1628 at Caaro, Brazil

Beatified

1934

Canonized

1988 by Pope John Paul II