After his death his mortal remains were buried in Our Lady of Snows Basilica in Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu, India.
Henriques was born into a Sephardi Jewish family in 1520 in Vila Viçosa, Alentejo, Kingdom of Portugal.
[4] Henriques initially lived in Goa until 1557 and then moved to the Pearl Fishery Coast or Tuticorin, under orders of St. Francis Xavier, where he worked as a missionary[2] from 1547 to 1549.
His progress in the development of the community and his concerns about the problems in the mission are explicit from the regular reports he wrote to his Superior General.
Henriques died on 22 February 1600 in a village named Punicale (now Punnaikayal in Thoothukudi district, Tamil Nadu).
[3] According to The Jesuit Annual Letter for 1601 ...on the day he died all the Muslims of the neighbouring village Patanam (Kayalpattanam) fasted; the Hindus also of the neighbouring places fasted two days and closed all their shops and bazaars to express their grief over the death of the good and holy old man.