ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JULY Saints celebrated on the 15th of July WELCOME! ALFONSO DE BAENA, MARTYR Alfonso de Baena ( Alphonsus Vaena ), a lay brother of the Society of Jesus , born in Toledo, Spain, was drowned at sea by Calvinist pirates on July 15, 1570, along with Father Ignatius Azevedo and 38 others from the same society while voyaging to Brazil. (Information from Stadler 's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 1, Augsburg, 1858, p. 150) Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations Sources of these articles (in the original German): books.google.co.uk, de-academic.com, zeno.org, openlibrary.org