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Memorial

• 15 July

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Jesuit friar. Missionary. Martyred by the Huguenot Jacques Sourie while en route to Brazil.

Born

• Porto, Portugal

Died

• drowned 15 July 1570 by being thrown off the ship Santiago near Palma, Canary Islands

Beatified

• 11 May 1854 by Pope Pius IX (cultus confirmation)

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Hagiography Circle
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

MLA Citation

• “Blessed Gaspar Alvares“. CatholicSaints.Info. 15 July 2013. Web. 20 April 2018. <>