Diego Luis de San Vitores, SJ (November 12, 1627 – April 2, 1672) was a Spanish Jesuit missionary who founded the first Catholic church on the island...

San Vitores may refer to: Diego Luis de San Vitores (1627–1672), a Jesuit missionary martyred on Guam Blessed Diego Luis de San Vitores Church, in Tumon...

missionary catechist who, along with the Spanish Jesuit missionary Diego Luis de San Vitores, suffered religious persecution and martyrdom in Guam for their...

soon also proved to be one of the bloodiest. On June 15, 1668, Diego Luis de San Vitores and a band of five other Jesuits arrived on Guam, the southernmost...

Places in 1975. It is an important site in marking where Father Diego Luis de San Vitores was killed, and for association with the Spanish-Chamorro Wars...

proselytizing by the first permanent mission to Guam, which was led by Diego Luis de San Vitores, and a series of cultural misunderstandings led to increasing...

and volunteered for the mission in the Marianas under Blessed Diego Luis de San Vítores. His superiors called him "the saintly Philippine" and noted that...

Spanish–Chamorro Wars and for his conflict with a Spanish priest Diego Luis de San Vitores, an early missionary of the colonial Spanish empire on Guam, and...

in their revolt against Spanish authorities.[citation needed] Diego Luis de San Vitores was a Jesuit missionary who was assigned to Taytay from 1662 to...

Catholic church was constructed in 1669, under the guidance of Father Diego San Vitores. The present building looms above the palm trees and is a familiar...

was captured, but released by Fr. Diego Luis de San Vitores. According to Russell's account of Father San Vitores' death, however, Hurao was in fact...

the fish, and lured it into the giant net. Enraged that Father Diego Luis de San Vitores had baptized his child, a Chamorro man and his friend killed the...

Calungsod, who was martyred in Guam alongside the Jesuit priest Diego Luis de San Vitores. The eventual temporary suppression of the Jesuits due their role...

formally occupied Tinian in 1669, with the missionary expedition of Diego Luis de San Vitores who named it Buenavista Mariana (Goodsight Mariana). From 1670...

Mariana approved the establishment of a Jesuit mission under Diego Luis de San Vitores and Saint Pedro Calungsod on a series of islands the Spanish referred...

the Dutch to take control of the Philippines. In 1668, Blessed Diego Luis de San Vitores established the first mission on Guam, where he and Saint Pedro...

Portugal and beheaded in India Francis Ferdinand de Capillas, 1648, missionary to China Diego Luis de San Vitores, and Pedro Calungsod, 1672 Feodosia Morozova...

when the island was sighted by the Spanish missionary Diego Luis de San Vitores who named it San Ignacio (Saint Ignatius in Spanish). It is likely that...

the island in 1668, with the missionary expedition of Diego Luis de San Vitores who named it San José. After 1670, it became a port of call for Portuguese...

Richards and Coco Martin. Christian Vasquez as Padre Diego Luis de San Vitores Padre Diego de San Vitores is a Spanish priest and father figure of Pedro Calungsod...

November 2020. In 1668, 147 years after Magellan's encounter, Fr. Diego Luis de San Vitores, a Jesuit priest, arrived in The Marianas with the mission to...

Canonized: October 21, 2012, by Pope Benedict XVI Diego Luis de San Vitores (Diego Jerónimo de San Vitores y Alonso de Maluendo) (1627-1672), Professed Priest of...

Register of Historic Places in 1991. The beach is named after Diego Luis de San Vitores, who was martyred in Tumon Bay. National Register of Historic...

Pedro Calungsod, a teenage indigenous Visayan catechist and Diego Luis de San Vitores, a Spanish friar, were both martyred in Guam during their mission...

established on Guam on June 15, 1668 by Spanish-Filipino missionaries Diego Luis de San Vitores and Pedro Calungsod.: 64  Catholics in Guam were part of the Diocese...

galleon carrying trading between Spanish colonies. In 1668, Father Diego Luis de San Vitores renamed the islands Las Marianas in honor of his patroness the...

Eventually, Chalan San Antionio reaches the shrine of Padre Diego Luis de San Vitores and enters a roundabout (a statue of Padre San Vitores stands in the...

Rico de Oro (island of gold) and Rico de Plata (island of silver). Spain expanded its Pacific empire in 1668 when Jesuit missionary Diego Luis de San Vitores...

commenced on June 15, 1668, with the arrival of a mission led by Diego Luis de San Vitores, who established the first Catholic church.: 64  The islands were...

attributed to the Filipino assistants of the Spanish missionary Diego Luis de San Vitores in 1668. Tubâ quickly became a fixture of the culture in the islands...