Article Nº 2289 Historical event Vol. II · p. 654
Martyrs (Forty)
Original title: Mártires (Quarenta)
Pointer entry on the forty Jesuits who passed through Madeira and were massacred near the Canaries in 1570.
On the passage through Madeira of the forty members of the Society of Jesus who were massacred off the Canary Islands on 15 July 1570, see the article Azevedo (Blessed Inácio de), on p. 110 of vol. I, and the book Paróquia de Santo António na Ilha da Madeira.
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