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Didacus of Alcal, , also known as Diego de San Nicols, was a Spanish Franciscan lay brother who served as among the first group of missionaries to the newly conquered Canary Islands. He died at Alcal de Henares onNovember 1463 and is now honored by the Catholic Church as a saint.

Didacus was born c.1400 into a poor but pious family in the small village of San Nicols del Puerto in the Kingdom of Seville. His parents gave him the name of Diego, a derivative of Santiago , the patron saint of Spain. As a child, he embraced the hermit life and, later, placed himself under the direction of a hermit priest living not far from his native town. He then led the life of a wandering hermit. Feeling called to the religious life, he applied for admission to the Observant branch of the Order of Friars Minor at the friary in Albaida and was sent to the friary in Arruzafa, near Crdoba, where he was received as a lay brother.

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