Ignacio de Azevedo, Blessed

Ignacio de Azevedo, Blessed
Ignacio de Azevedo, Blessed
Portuguese Jesuit, missionary to Brazil, martyred with thirty-nine companions by Huguenot pirates near the island of Palma in 1570

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