Bl. John de Britto

Bl. John de Britto
Bl. John de Britto
    Blessed John de Britto
    † Catholic_Encyclopedia ► Blessed John de Britto
    Martyr; born in Lisbon, 1 March, 1647, and was brought up in court; martyred in India 11 February, 1693.
    Entering the Society of Jesus at fifteen, he obtained as his mission-field Madura in southern India. In September, 1673, he reached Goa. Before taking up his work he spent thirty days in the Exercises of St. Ignatius at Ambalacate near Cranganore. De Britto apparently entered the Kshatriyas, a noble caste. His dress was yellow cotton; he abstained from every kind of animal food and from wine. Setting out early in 1674, he traversed the Ghauts on foot and reached Colei in the Cauvery Delta, where he perfected himself in the language. He journeyed northward at least as far as Madras and Vellore, but Cauvery Delta, Tanjore, Madura, and Marava, between Madura and the sea, were his chief field. In 1684 he was imprisoned in Marava, and, though freed by the king, he was expelled from the country. In 1688 he was sent to Europe as deputy to the triennial Congregation of Procurators. Resisting urgent attempts to keep him in Portugal, and refusing the Archbishopric of Cranganore, he returned in 1691 to the borders of Madura and Marava. Having converted Teriadeven, a Maravese prince, he required him to dismiss all his wives but one. Among them was a niece of the king, who took up her quarrel and began a general persecution. De Britto and others were taken and carried to the capital, Ramnad, the Brahmins clammering for his death. Thence he was led to Oreiour, some thirty miles northward along the coast, where his head was struck off, 11 February, 1693.
    He had wrought many conversions during his life, established many stations, and was famous for his Miracles before and after his death. He was beatified by Pius IX, 21, August, 1853.
    H. WOODS
    Transcribed by Joseph P. Thomas In memory of Father Zacharias O.C.D.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume VIII. — New York: Robert Appleton Company. . 1910.


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