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martyred 1693 · Catholic & Portuguese

John de Britto

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John de Britto
Cleetuscls, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 — source

The Portuguese Jesuit John de Britto laboured in the Madurai mission in de Nobili's style, living simply among the Tamil people, until he was put to death in 1693 for his preaching. Rome later canonised him; in India he is sometimes remembered as a second Xavier.

Older public-domain lives exist on the Internet Archive; A. Saulière's Red Sand is copyrighted and cited only.

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