Alphonsus Rodriguez, Jesuit lay brother and saint (d. 1617)
Alphonsus Rodríguez (Spanish: Alfonso) (25 July 1532 – 31 October 1617) was a Spanish Jesuit lay brother, now venerated as a saint. He was a native of Segovia. Though his life was punctuated with personal tragedies and disappointments, his impact on the people he met was his legacy.
He is not to be confused with Alphonsus (Alonso) Rodríguez, another Jesuit who wrote the Exercicio de perfección y virtudes cristianas (3 vols., Seville, 1609), which has frequently been re-edited and translated into many languages.