Blessed Manuel Fernandes

Blessed Manuel Fernandes

Manuel Fernandes

Blessed

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

Manuel Fernandes 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. Fernandes was a scholastic from Portugal; like the others, he was thrown overboard alive.

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