Roque González y de Santa Cruz
Roque González de Santa Cruz, SJ (17 November 1576 – 15 November 1628) was a Guaraní-Spanish Jesuit priest who was the first missionary among the Guaraní in Paraguay. He was murdered in 1628 and is venerated as a martyr and a saint by the Catholic Church.
In the Martyrology
- November 15 Saints Roque González de Santa Cruz and Alonso Rodríguez Obnel, Jesuit priests and martyrs of Brazil