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Roque González de Santa Cruz, SJ (17 November 1576 – 15 November 1628) was a Jesuit priest who was the first missionary among the Guarani people in Paraguay. He is honored as a martyr and saint by the Catholic Church.
Roque Gonzalez y de Santa-Cruz was the son of noble Spanish parents, and he came into this world at Asuncion, the capitol of Paraguay, in 1576. He was an unusually good and religious boy, and everybody took it for granted that young Roque would become a priest.
St. Roque González, SJ (1576-1628) By Bert Ghezzi. From Voices of the Saints. “All the Christians among my countrymen loved the Father and grieved for his death because he was the father of us all, and so he was called by the Indians of the Paraná River.”.
Roque González de Santa Cruz (Asunción, Paraguay, 17 de noviembre de 1576 - Caibaté, Brasil 15 de noviembre de 1628) fue un religioso presbítero y mártir criollo paraguayo, fundador de varias misiones y reducciones jesuíticas.
Roque Gonzalez y de Santa-Cruz was the son of noble Spanish parents, and he came into this world at Asuncion, the capitol of Paraguay, in 1576. He was an unusually good and religious boy, and everybody took it for granted that young Roque would become a priest.
Roque González de Santa Cruz ( b. 1576; d. 15 November 1628), Paraguayan Jesuit who founded many of the Jesuit missions ( reducciones) in his native land, as well as in present-day Argentina and Uruguay. Born of Spanish parents in Asunción, he learned Guaraní as a child.
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ARGENTINA, 2006, the St. Roque Gonzalez de Santa Cruz Bridge between Argentina and Paraguay, Scott 2415 This cable-stayed bridge, built between 1981 and 1990, crosses the Paraná River between the cities of Posadas in the province of Missiones, Argentina, and Encarnación in Paraguay.
