Juan de Castillo (Jesuit)
Saint Juan de Castillo | |
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John Paul II | |
Major shrine | Caibaté |
Feast | 17 November[1] |
Attributes | Martyr-saint |
Juan de Castillo (14 September 1595 – 17 November 1628) was a
Biography
Born on 14 September 1596 in
In November 1616 he was sent with
Mission to Paraguay
Background
The Jesuits arrived at
Mission
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Juan del Castillo began his missionary work immediately after being ordained a priest. He joined at Ijuí Roque González y de Santa Cruz who left him at the head of this reduction and went to found a new one. At Ijuí, presently in the western Brazilian municipality of Rio Grande do Sul, Juan helped Christianize the Guaranis, and taught the youngest to read and write.
Death
Juan del Castillo was assassinated on 17 November 1628 in Yjuhi,[9] two days after his companions Roque Gonzalez and Alphonsus Rodriguez. The chieftain Nheçu, head of the surrounding region, was hostile to their Christianizing efforts. He ordered his men to murder the three religious, and he condemned all missionaries in general.[10] Juan was murdered in the forest, but brought back and buried with his companions in the reduction of the Immaculate Conception.[11]
Public recognition
Juan del Castillo along with Roque Gonzalez de Santa Cruz and Alfonso Rodriguez were beatified by Pope
Tireless in preaching, austere in their personal lives, the love of Christ and the indigenous people led them to open new roads and raise reductions that facilitated the spread of the faith and ensured dignified living conditions for their brothers and sisters. ...The work of the Jesuit fathers enabled the Guarani peoples to pass, in a few years, from a state of semi-nomadic life to a singular civilization.[12]
References
- ^ "Martyrs of Paraguay (STS. Roque Gonzalez, Juan Castillo, Alonso Rodriguez) | Saints Resource".
- ^ TYLENDA JN, Jesuit Saints & Martyrs. Short Biographies of the Saints, Blessed, Venerable, and Servants of God of the Society of Jesus, 2nd ed., Chicago, Loyola Press, 1998, p. 391.
- ^ FATAS CABEZA G. (ed.), "Gran enciclopedia de Espana", c. 5, Camino - Cataluna, Encyclopedia of Espana, S.A., 1992, p. 2419.
- ^ a b TYLENDA JN, op cit ., p. 391.
- ^ STORNi HSI, Catalogo de los jesuitas de la Provincia del Paraguay (Cuenca del Plata) 1585 - 1768, Rome, Institutum Historicum SI, 1980, p.59.
- ^ TENENBAUM B. A. (eds.), Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture , v. 4 (Mestizo to Rutineros), Charles Scribner's Sons, 1996, p. 291.
- ^ GERHARDS A., ' 'Historical Dictionary of Religious Orders', Fayard, 1998, p. 351.
- ^ BANGERT William VSJ, A History of the Society of Jesus, St. Louis, The Institute of Jesuit Sources, 1972, p. 258.
- ^ STORNI H. S.I., op. cit. , p. 59
- ^ TYLENDA J. N., op. cit., p. 391-392.
- ^ "Santos do Brasil". www.santosdobrasil.org. Retrieved 2018-08-21.
- ^ "16 de mayo de 1988, Canonización de los beatos Roque González de Santa Cruz, Alfonso Rodríguez y Juan del Castillo en Campo "Ñu Guazú" de Asunción (Paraguay) | Juan Pablo II". www.vatican.va. Retrieved 2018-08-22.
Bibliography
- TYLENDA J. N., Jesuit Saints & Martyrs. Short Biographies of the Saints, Blessed, Venerables, and Servants of God of the Society of Jesus, 2nd éd., Chicago, Loyola Press, 1998.
- FATAS CABEZA G. (dir.), Gran enciclopedia de Espana, v. 5, Camino – Cataluna, Encyclopedia de Espana, S.A., 1992.
- STORNi H. S.I., Catalogo de los jesuitas de la provincia del Paraguay (Cuenca del plata) 1585 – 1768, Rome, Institutum Historicum S. I., 1980.
- TENENBAUM B. A. (dir.), Encyclopedia of Latin american History and Culture, v. 4 (Mestizo to Rutineros), Charles Scribner's Sons, 1996.
- GERHARDS A., Dictionnaire historique des ordres religieux, Fayard, 1998.
- BANGERT William V. S.J., A History of the Society of Jesus, St Louis, the Institute of jesuit sources, 1972.