Saints and Biography
The Life of St. Alonso Rodriguez
A Biography of the Jesuit Lay-Brother
- By Father Francis Goldie, S.J.
Father Francis Goldie's biography of St. Alonso Rodriguez, the Jesuit lay brother.
Read the opening
Chapter I. The Dawn and Chapter II. Life of Penance in the World: 9,400 words, about 9 percent of the book, free in the press's own transcription. Read them here.
- Source edition
- 1889
- Manualist edition
- March 2026
Father Goldie tells the life of St. Alonso Rodriguez, a widower who entered the Society of Jesus as a lay brother and spent many years serving as porter at the college in Majorca.
The account places his hidden work, prayer, and trials within the wider life of the Jesuit community.
Why this book
Father Goldie's biography follows St. Alonso Rodriguez through family loss, religious life, and his long service as a Jesuit lay brother.
