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José de Anchieta y Díaz de Clavijo, SJ ( Joseph of Anchieta; 19 March 1534 – 9 June 1597) was a Canarian Jesuit missionary to the Portuguese colony of Brazil in the second half of the 16th century. A highly influential figure in Brazil's history in the first century after its European discovery, Anchieta was one of the founders of São ...
José de Anchieta. Saint. Death:06/09/1597. Nationality (place of birth):Spain. The canonization of Blessed José de Anchieta on this date, April 3, is anevent that the Church in Brazil has greatly desired for a long time. He wasproclaimed Apostle of Brazil, a title for which he is known to this day, bythe Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro in the ...
May 31, 2019 · José was born in 1534 at Tenerife on the Canary Islands, then a Spanish Colony. José’s parents were Juan Anchieta and Mencia Díaz, wealthy landowners who had left their native Basque Country in northern Spain. Juan’s father was a relative of (St.) Ignatius of Loyola.
Juan de Anchieta was born c. 1462 in Azpeitia, near San Sebastian in N. Spain to a prominent Basque family. By 1489 he was a singer in Isabella’s chapel and music master to Prince Juan.
Jun 20, 2019 · His father, Juan Anchieta y Zelaiaran, had escaped from Urrestilla, in the Basque Country, in 1525 after engaging in a failed rebellion against Emperor Charles V. Juan was distantly related to the founder of the Jesuits, St. Ignatius of Loyola.
Jun 9, 2021 · June 9, 2021. It should come as no surprise that St. Joseph de Anchieta was attracted to the Jesuit order; on his mother’s side, he was related to St. Ignatius of Loyola. Born to a well-to-do Spanish family in 1534, Joseph was sent to study in Portugal at the age of 14.
A famous Jesuit missionary, commonly known as the Apostle of Brazil, born on the Island of Tenerife, in 1553, of noble family; died in Brazil, 1596. After studying in Coimbra, he entered the Society of Jesus, at the age of seventeen, and when a novice nearly ruined his health by his excessive austerity, causing an injury to the spine which made ...
