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Alphonsus Rodriguez (Alfonso Rodriguez, 1533-1617) gained enduring fame for the extraordinary holiness that shone out of the very ordinariness of his work as the Jesuit doorkeeper of a school.
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Alphonsus Rodriguez (Alfonso Rodriguez, 1533-1617) gained...
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Alphonsus Rodríguez, SJ ( Spanish: Alfonso) (25 July 1532 – 31 October 1617) was a Spanish Jesuit religious brother who is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church . Life and work. Rodríguez was the son of a wool merchant.
Learn about the life and legacy of Saint Alphonsus Rodriguez, a Spanish Jesuit doorkeeper who served with prayer and compassion. He is the patron saint of Majorca and the subject of a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins.
St. Alphonsus Rodriguez, SJ (1533–1617) By Bert Ghezzi. From Voices of the Saints. Some saints attack the world head-on, like St. Peter Claver, the friend and disciple of St. Alphonsus Rodriguez. Others like Alphonsus himself fight personal battles against failure, loss, temptation, and disease.
October 31, 2021 — Today is the feast of Jesuit St. Alphonsus Rodriguez, patron saint of Jesuit brothers. Rodriguez was born in Segovia, Spain, on July 25, 1532, to wool and cloth merchants. When he grew of age, he was sent to a Jesuit college for his education but had to leave when his father died.
St. Alphonsus, model of mercy and hospitality, pray for us! St. Alphonsus Rodriguez’s feast day is October 31; read a prayer for his feast day by Cameron Bellm. Br. Matt Wooters, SJ, lives in Chicago and works for the Midwest Jesuits Vocations Team.
Alphonsus Rodriguez, Saint, b. July 25, 1532; d. 31, 1617. The Saint was a Jesuit lay brother who entered the Society at the age of forty. Read more here.
