Étienne de la Croix SJ (Diocese of Évreux, 1579–1643), was a French Jesuit, missionary to India and author of a life of St Peter in Marathi: Discurso sobre a vida do Apostolo Sam Pedro em que se refuta os principaes erros do gentilismo (Goa, 1629).
[1][2][3] De la Croix entered the Society of Jesus in 1599, and arrived in India in 1602.
He succeeded the English Jesuit Thomas Stephens as Rector of the College at Rachol.
[4] His Peter Purana, as it is popularly known, consisted of 12,000 ovis (verses) in a Marathi that contained a significant number of Konkani words and expressions.
[5] He also wrote in Konkani language, though none of these works survive, according to Alexandre Rhodes, writing in 1621.