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Also known as

• Ignatio de Azevedo
• Inácio de Azevedo

Memorial

• 15 July

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

• 1526 at Oporto, 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)

Representation

• man standing on a ship’s deck, holding up an image of the Blessed Virgin Mary

MLA Citation

• “Blessed Ignatius de Azevedo“. CatholicSaints.Info. 29 December 2018. Web. 23 January 2021. <>