"Love the poor tenderly, regarding them as your masters and yourselves as their servants."
Birth date: March 8, 1495
Birth place: Portugal
Death date: March 8, 1550
Death place: Spain
Feast day: March 8
Canonized Date: October 16, 1690
Canonized By: Alexander III
Date in Brotherhood of Saints: March 8
Links of Interest:
Order of Knights and Ladies of the Royal Basilica of St. John of God