Roque González de Santa Cruz, a Jesuit missionary who established missions in Brazil
A cross with the heart of the first Paraguayan saint, San Roque G. de Santa Cruz, projects from the top of the arc.
The festivity of Saint Roque on August 16 is celebrated in a chapel built in his honor.
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From this centrally located operations' base cacique Nheçu supposedly ordered the assassination of Jesuit priests Roque González de Santa Cruz, Afonso Rodrigues, and Juan del Castillo in 1628 when they were killed.
Father Roque González de Santa Cruz established a town called Anunciación de Itapúa on March 25, 1615, but ten years later the settlement was moved to the other side of the Paraná River to the present location of Encarnación, Paraguay.