Born Juan Fernandez de Oviedo in the Spanish city of Cordoba in 1526 and died in 1567 as Brother Juan Fernandez, S.J. died in the Japanese city of Hirado eighteen years after his arrival in Japan at the age of forty-one.
S.J. was born Juan Fernandez de Oviedo in the Spanish city of Cordoba in 1526. S.J. died in 1567 as Brother Juan Fernandez. S.J. died in the Japanese city of Hirado eighteen years after his arrival in Japan at the age of forty-one.