Day 326 -- Blessed Alphonsus Pacheco

Blessed Alphonsus Pacheco was born around the year 1551 in Catalonia. He joined the Jesuits on September 8, 1567 and in 1574 he arrived in Goa, India as a missionary priest. He went to Portugal and worked in the village of Cuncolim. He was martyred with Blessed Rudolph Acquaviva, Blessed Anthony Francis, Blessed Francis Aranaha, and Blessed Peter Berno, as the martyrs of Cuncolim. They died on July 25, 1583 near Goa. He was buried at the church of Our Lady of the Snows. He was beatified on April 16, 1893.