March 12, 1730: Juan Esandi was born in Navarre, Spain

On March 12, 1730, Juan Esandi, S.J., the last Jesuit Missionary to die in the Philippines before the Jesuit Order was expelled in 1768, was born in Navarre, Spain.

Fr. Esandi, who arrived in Manila in 1752, was killed by Muslim pirates in Capul Island, Samar (now Northern Samar) in 1768.