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A year with Jesuit saints and blesseds

A year with Jesuit saints and blesseds

To date there are 208 Jesuit saints and blesseds, of whom 155 are blesseds and 53 are saints. Of these, 180 are martyrs — people who witnessed to their faith and love for Christ to the shedding of their blood.

As for their geographical origin, the countries where they were born are: France, 44 Jesuits; Portugal, 39; Spain, 35; Japan, 29; England, 24; Italy, 12; Poland, 4; Ireland, 3; Wales, 2; Germany, 2. All the other countries listed below were the birthplace of a single Jesuit: Albania, Belgium, Chile, Korea, Ecuador, Haiti, Kosovo, Mexico, the Netherlands, Paraguay, Romania, El Salvador, Scotland, Switzerland.

As for their form of membership in the Jesuit Order, 129 are fathers, that is priests; 47 brothers, that is temporal coadjutors; 29 scholastics, that is students of philosophy and theology on the way to the ministerial priesthood; 1 novice; 1 candidate; 1 indifferent, that is still unsure whether to enter the Society of Jesus as a scholastic or as a temporal coadjutor.