Álvarez de Paz (1560 – 17 January 1620) was a Spanish

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mystic of the

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, born in

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Life

He joined the Society in 1578, and taught and wrote on

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and

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Lima Lima ( ; ), founded in 1535 as the Ciudad de los Reyes (, Spanish for "City of Biblical Magi, Kings"), is the capital and largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón River, Chillón, Rímac River, Rímac and Lurín Rive ...

's Jesuit mission.Marin, J. M.
Mystical Theology in the Early Jesuit Mission to Colonial Paraguay
''The Way'', accessed on 16 February 2025 Occasionally during his sermons, he fell into ecstasy and had to be carried from the pulpit. The fame of his sanctity was so great in South America, that, when he arrived, in a dying condition, at

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, the whole city came out to receive his blessing.

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made reference to him in a list of Jesuit priests associated with devotion to the

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in his 2024 encyclical letter on this subject, '' Dilexit nos''.Pope Francis
Dilexit nos
paragraph 146, published on 24 October 2024, accessed on 16 February 2025 On the day of his death at Potosí, 100,000 men in the silver mines stopped work to assist at his funeral.

Works

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Attribution

* 1560 births 1620 deaths Clergy from Toledo, Spain Spanish Roman Catholic missionaries Roman Catholic missionaries in Peru 16th-century Spanish Jesuits 17th-century Spanish Jesuits Jesuit missionaries in Peru {{RC-clergy-stub