A portrait of St. Francis Solanus
St. Francis Solanus
1549 – 1610
Feast
July 14 · XVII c.
Patron of
Argentina · Bolivia · Paraguay · Missionaries
Order
Religious / Franciscan / Missionary
Spanish Franciscan missionary to South America (1549-1610); after twenty years in Andalusia sailed for Peru in 1589 and labored for two decades among the indigenous peoples of Tucumán, Paraguay, and the upper Río de la Plata, said to have preached miraculously in their languages. Canonized 1726 by Benedict XIII.
Life & Times
Born: 1549 · Died: 1610 · From: Spain / South America.
Patronage
St. Francis Solanus is invoked as the patron of argentina, bolivia, paraguay, missionaries. Those in these callings or circumstances often turn to this saint in prayer.
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