Blessed Pedro Nunes

Blessed Pedro Nunes

Pedro Nunes

Blessed

  • Death: 07/15/1570
  • Nationality (place of birth): Portugal

Pedro Nunes was en route to Brazil as a missionary when he was captured by Calvinist corsairs and martyred, along with 39 other Jesuits led by Father Igácio de Azevedo. Nunes, a scholastic from Portugal, was thrown alive into the ocean.

For more details of the story of this group, see the account listed under the name of Blessed Igácio de Azevedo.

Other Martyers for the Catholic Faith after Reformation

Originally Collected and edited by: Tom Rochford, SJ