Having been expelled, he returned to Lisbon in 1687 and worked as a missions procurator. The ruler of the Maravar country imprisoned him in 1684. He renamed himself Arul Anandar (அருளானந்தர்) in Tamil. He travelled to the missions of Madurai, in Southern India, present-day Tamil Nadu, in 1673 and preached the Christian religion in the region of the Maravar country. ![]() He joined the Jesuits in 1662, studying at the famous University of Coimbra. ![]() John de Britto was the scion of a powerful aristocratic Portuguese family his father, Salvador de Britto Pereira, died while serving as Viceroy of the Portuguese colony of Brazil. He is also called the John the Baptist of India. John de Britto, SJ (also spelled Brito Portuguese: João de Brito), also known as Arul Anandar, (born in Lisbon, Portugal on 1 March 1647 – died at Orur, Tamil Nadu, India on 4 February 1693) was a Portuguese Jesuit missionary and martyr, often called "the Portuguese St Francis Xavier" by Indian Catholics. Portugal, Roman Catholic Diocese of Sivagangai, Sakthikulangara, The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Madurai ![]() (now in Ramanathapuram district, Tamil Nadu, India) Lisbon, Kingdom of Portugal and the Algarves (now Portugal)
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