breski1 on Oct 29, 2007 SAINT ALPHONSUS RODRIGUEZ Confessor, Jesuit Coadjutor (1531-1617) Saint Alphonsus Rodriguez was born in Spain in 1531, of a well-to-do commercial household of Segovia, the third of eleven children. When Alphonsus was eleven … [More]

breski1 on Oct 29, 2007 SAINT ALPHONSUS RODRIGUEZ Confessor, Jesuit Coadjutor (1531-1617) Saint Alphonsus Rodriguez was born in Spain in 1531, of a well-to-do commercial household of Segovia, the third of eleven children. When Alphonsus was eleven years old, he and his older brother were sent to a Jesuit college which had just been founded. He had already manifested great joy in serving the Jesuits when they had given a mission in Segovia and lodged in his father’s country home; now he rejoiced in the one year of study he was able to undertake, before the death of his father interrupted these pursuits. His brother, after certain affairs were settled, returned to school, but Alphonsus was obliged to remain at home, destined one day to replace his father.