ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN OCTOBER Saints celebrated on the 31st of October WELCOME! SAINT ALPHONSUS RODRIGUEZ, JESUIT Alphonsus Rodriguez lived a whole life before entering the Society of Jesus . He was a husband, a father, a businessman. But when his family died and his business collapsed, his entire life was upended. Alphonsus had been in comfortable circumstances, born in 1533 as the son of a wool merchant. When Peter Faber , one of the original Jesuits , visited the city to preach, the Rodriguez family provided hospitality to the Jesuit . Faber prepared the young Rodriguez for his First Communion. At the age of twelve, Alphonsus was sent to the new Jesuit college at Alcala, but left two years later to help his mother run the family business after his father died. At the age of 26, he married Maria Suarez, a woman of his own station, with whom he had three children. At the age of 31, she had died as did two of their children. From...