Rodolfo Acquaviva
Italian Jesuit missionary (1550-1583)
Feast: 25 July (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
At Salsette in India, Blessed martyrs Rodolfo Acquaviva, Alphonsus Pacheco, Peter Berno, Anthony Francis, priests, and Francis Aranha, religious, of the Society of Jesus, killed by the unbelievers for having exalted the cross.
The miracles
As a martyr he was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 25 July as one of the Jesuit martyrs of Salsette in India, killed for having exalted the cross.
The cause
Rodolfo Acquaviva has been beatified; the cause continues. Favours received, and offers of help, go to the postulation, the office that carries the cause forward: Jesuits: the cause of Rodolfo Acquaviva.
- Roman Martyrology, 25 July (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q709273 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Rodolfo Acquaviva (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.