AZEVEDO, INÁCIO, Martyr, Blessed. - Jesuit, born near Porto in 1528 into a family of old nobility, he became a religious at Coimbra in 1548. He was rector of the colleges of Lisbon and Braga and for some months vice-provincial of Portugal (1558), but in 1556 St. Francis Borgia, third general of the Society, sent him as visitor to Brazil, where A. founded the college of Rio de Janeiro. Having returned to Europe to seek aid for the mission, he gathered a small band of 69 religious, Portuguese and Spanish, mostly young, and himself gave them a final spiritual preparation during the five months of waiting for embarkation. But at the beginning of the voyage the ship carrying A. was seized by the French corsair Sourie (of La Rochelle) off the island of Palma (Canaries). By order of the Calvinist leader, the superior of the Jesuits was massacred and thrown into the sea with 39 companions (15 July 1570). St. Teresa, who had a relative among them, the blessed Francisco Pérez Godoy, had in Avila the vision of the entry into heaven of the 40 martyrs. They were beatified by Pius IX in 1854; their feast is celebrated on 15 July. Of the other missionaries of the expedition, who turned back and set out again the following year, a group of 14 fell into the hands of the corsairs and had 12 martyrs, led by the venerated fathers Pietro Díaz and Francisco de Castro (13 Sept. 1571).
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AZEVÊDO, INÁCIO, MARTIRE, BEATO
Also known as: German: Ignatius von Azevedo; Blessed Inácio de Azevedo, Ignatius de Azevedo; Spanish: Ignacio de Azevedo; Portuguese: Inácio de Azevedo
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Lamalle, Edmondo. “Azevêdo, inácio, martire, beato.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, col. 575. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/azevedo-inacio-martire-beato.
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Lamalle, Edmondo. “Azevêdo, inácio, martire, beato.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, col. 575. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/azevedo-inacio-martire-beato.
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title = {Azevêdo, inácio, martire, beato},
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address = {Città del Vaticano},
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