Blessed Ignatius de Azevedo
Also known as
- Ignatio de Azevedo
- Inácio de Azevedo
Profile
Joined the Jesuits at Coimbra, Portugal on 28 December 1548. Priest. Rector of the Jesuit college at Lisbon, Portugal. Jesuit provincial for Portugal. Rector at Broja. Leader of a band of forty Spanish and Portugese Jesuit missionaries martyred by the Huguenot pirate Jacques Sourie while en route to Brazil.
Born
- drowned 15 July 1570 by being thrown off the ship Santiago near Palma, Canary Islands
- man standing on a ship’s deck, holding up an image of the Blessed Virgin Mary
MLA Citation
- “Blessed Ignatius de Azevedo“. CatholicSaints.Info. 12 July 2015. Web. 21 April 2018. <>