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Simão Rodrigues de Azevedo, SJ (1510, Vouzela, Portugal - 15 June 1579, Lisbon), also known in English as Simon Rodericks, was a Portuguese Catholic priest and one of the co-founders of the Society of Jesus.
A Portuguese nobleman, Simão Rodrigues (1510–1579) was one of Ignatius of Loyola’s closest companions, and one among the “Friends of the Lord” who would take vows of poverty and chastity in 1530s Paris and eventually found the Society of Jesus.
Simão Rodrigues, one of Ignatius’s first companions in founding the Society of Jesus, became the founding provincial of the Portuguese province in 1546. In Coimbra, Portugal, his fellow Jesuits opposed Rodrigues’s unique training methods for Jesuit scholastics.
Simão Rodrigues de Azevedo S.J. (Vouzela, 1510 - Lisboa, 15 de junho de 1579) foi um sacerdote jesuíta português, um dos membros do grupo [1] fundador da Companhia de Jesus, liderado por Santo Inácio de Loyola, e o primeiro Provincial de Portugal.
Simão Rodrigues de Azevedo, SJ, also known in English as Simon Rodericks, was a Portuguese Catholic priest and one of the co-founders of the Society of Jesus.
Simão Rodrigues 1 was one of Ignatius' original companions in Paris and it was he who introduced (1540) the Society into Portugal. When Ignatius wrote this letter the relations between Pope Paul III and King John III of Portugal were at their worst.
Simão Rodrigues de Azevedo, SJ (1510, Vouzela, Portugal - 15 June 1579, Lisbon), also known in English as Simon Rodericks, was a Portuguese Catholic priest and one of the co-founders of the Society of Jesus.
