Vítor Coelho
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Vítor Coelho C.Ss.R. | |
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Archdiocese | Aparecida |
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Ordination | 5 August 1923 |
Rank | Priest |
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Birth name | Vítor Coelho de Almeida |
Born | Sacramento, Minas Gerais, Brazil | September 22, 1899
Died | July 21, 1987 Aparecida, Brazil | (aged 87)
Nationality | Brazilian |
Denomination | Roman Catholic |
Vítor Coelho de Almeida (September 22, 1899 - July 21, 1987), more known as "Padre Vítor Coelho", was a Brazilian Redemptorist priest and catechist. He was most famous for his preaching methods and his devotion to the patron saint of Brazil, Our Lady of Aparecida.[1]
Coelho was born in Sacramento, Minas Gerais, the son of Leão Coelho de Almeida and Maria Sebastiana Alves Moreira.[2] He entered in the Santo Afonso seminary in Aparecida, completed his studies in Germany and was ordained a priest on 1923.
His beatification process is underway and is led by Dom Darci José, the Auxiliary Bishop of Aparecida.[3]
See also[]
- Our Lady of Aparecida
- Roman Catholicism in Brazil
References[]
Categories:
- 1899 births
- 1987 deaths
- Redemptorists
- Brazilian Roman Catholics
- Brazilian Roman Catholic priests
- People from Minas Gerais
- Catholic Church in Brazil
- 20th-century Roman Catholic priests