Subj : =?UTF-8?Q?16_June_=E2=80=93_Blessed_Donizetti_Tavares_de_Lima?= To : All From : rich Date : Tue Jun 15 2021 10:19:33 From: rich 16 June =E2=80=93 Blessed Donizetti Tavares de Lima =C2 Priest, Apostle of the poor, the elderly and the sick, miracle-worker, known to bilocate =E2=80=93 born on 3 January 1881 in C=C3= =A1ssia, Brazil and died at 11.15am on 16 June 1961 in at the parish hall in Tamba=C3=BA, Brazil of natural causes, He was 80 years old. Donizetti was born in 1882 to Minas Gerais de Trist=C3=A3o and Francisca C=C3=A2ndida Tavares de Lima. He was one of eight brothers. His father worked in law and his mother worked as a professor. In 1886, the Tavares de Limas family relocated to Franca in S=C3=A3o Paulo, where he attended school and learned music. In 1894 he commenced his ecclesial studies where he soon became the organist at the institute where he studied and later started to teach music to the seminarians. In 1897 he moved to a college to further his education but later returned to teach music to seminarians. In 1900 he commenced a law course and in 1903 his philosophical and theological formation in preparation for the priesthood. He received his Ordination as a Priest on 12 July 1908 from the Bishop of Pouso Alegre. He began work in the San Gaetano Parish and then spent time in the Campinas Diocese where he served as an auxiliary Priest. In 1909, he was appointed as the Parish Priest for the Sant'Ana Chu= rch Vargem Grande do Sul in the Ribeir=C3=A3o Preto Diocese, where he defended the rights of the poor. This staunch advocacy for the poor led to the rich and his other detractors to accuse him of being a communist. He also helped construct Chapels to Nossa Senhora Aparecida and to Saint Benedict of Nursia. He was stationed at the Sant'Ana church from 20 April to 8 August 1909 before being transferred again. On 24 May 1926 he was appointed as the newest Parish Priest for the Church of St Anthony in Tamba=C3=BA. He arrived in the town on 12 June and was inaugurated at the parish with his first Mass there on 13 June. It was there that he oversaw the establishment of the Saint Vincent de Paul Sanatorium for the abandoned and for elderly people who lived alone. The first miracle attributed to him occurred in 1927 =E2=80=93 torrential r= ain threatened a procession of a statue of Our Lady of Aparecida but the storm subsided and was quieted when Fr Donizetti led the procession himself. In 1960, the Archbishop of Ribeir=C3=A3o Preto city, Dom Luiz do Amaral Mousinho, went to Tambau, to visit the parish of Saint Anthony and met Fr Donizetti. As soon as he saw the Archbishop, he told him: =E2=80=9CArchbishop, I had a terrible nightmare! I saw the demon entering t= he Cathedral of Saint Sebastian (in Ribeir=C3=A3o Preto city-SP) with some priests with him and all of them were armed with picks in hand. They were walking to the side altars of the Cathedral, screaming loudly. When they reached the altar of St Anthony, the image of the holy Friar of Lisbon looked with authority to the devil and his minions, then they left the place fast. Archbishop, for goodness sake, do not let them overthrow the altars of the Cathedral!=E2=80=9D At that moment, the Archbishop told him that it was just a dream, a nightmare and no one would remove the altars but Fr Donizetti told again: =E2=80=9CNo, no, Archbishop! We won't see this disgrace (prophesyin= g that they both would die soon) but it will come! This was not just a dream, nor a nightmare! The darkness will fall over this world! I beg you: don=E2=80= =99t let them destroy the altars!=E2=80=9D Kindly, as usual he was, the Archbish= op smiled and told him: =E2=80=9CFr Donizetti, I promise you, I won't = let anyone destroy the altars of our Cathedral!=E2=80=9D A few years later, after the introduction of the New Mass, Fr Agmar Marques remembered this fact and he avoided the removal of the altars of Saint Sebastian Cathedral. Father Horacio Longo also remembered the =E2=80=9Cnightmare of the altars=E2=80=9D prophesied by Father Donizetti wh= en they removed the side altars of the parish of Franca city, now the Our Lady of Conception Cathedral. Father Saverio Brugnara reported that Father Donizetti received a picture of St Pope John XXIII in 1959. At that moment Fr Donizetti looked for a time at the picture, smiled and said to an acolyte that they both should pray a lot for the Pope and for the Church. One of the acolytes wanted to remove the old picture of Pope Pius XII on the wall and put the picture of the new Pope, John XXIII but Fr Donizetti said: =E2=80=9CNo, my son! Leave the picture there! Soon I will meet him! A= s for the new Pope's picture, leave it there, where it is.=E2=80=9D T= he picture of Pope John XXIII was placed on a dresser and Pius XII's picture continued on the wall, at the main place of the sacristy. Many miracles were witnessed through the piety and devotion of Father Donizetti. He was just a living saint and he used to be called as =E2=80=9C= the thaumaturge of Tambau.=E2=80=9D One of the miracles which Father Donizetti always attributed to the intercession of Our Lady of Aparecida, was witnessed by one of the most respected journalists in Brazil, Joelmir Beting (1936-2012) who was born and lived in Tambau.=C2 Local officials came to him to seek out his advice on social matters. Even President Get=C3=BAlio Vargas spoke with Fr Donizetti about social matters, that culminated legislation governing proper work ethics On a radio program the journalist told that on the Easter Sunday of 1953, Fr Donizetti prayed the Mass in the church of Saint Anthony for thousands people and at the same time, he was seen by about 2000 people in the City of S=C3=A3o Pedro dos Morrinhos, attending an auction of cattle to raise money for his sanatorium. This was one of the many miracles that made him known in the state of S=C3=A3o Paulo and other states of the country. Another famous miracle happened in 1955 when Jos=C3=A9 Alexandre Braga, a boy of 5 years old, was cured of osteochondritis, a disease that prevented him from walking. About the miracles, Father Donizetti used to say that the most important were not the cures but the conversions to Catholicism. https://anastpaul.com/2020/06/16/ Saint Quote: It is by the path of love, which is charity, that God draws near to man, and man to God. But where charity is not found, God cannot dwell. If, then, we possess charity, we possess God, for "God is Charity" (1 Jn 4:8) --Saint Albert the Great Bible Quote "Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed."=C2 (John 6:27)=C2 DRB <><><><> Special Promise to earn "World Peace" O Jesus Divine Saviour! Be merciful, be merciful to us and to the whole world. Amen. Powerful God! Holy God! Immortal God! Have compassion upon us and the upon the whole world. Amen. Grace and mercy, my Jesus, during the present danger! Shield us with Thy Precious Blood. Amen. Eternal Father, show us mercy in the name of the Precious Blood of Thy only Son; show us mercy, we implore Thee. Amen. =C2 =C2 [ According to information from a reliable source, the above prayer was disclosed to a devout priest in Rome during the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, when it was revealed to him that those who say the prayer with devotion and faith would be spared from the "Great Sufferings" that are soon to come into the "Whole World." ] =C2 =C2 A Berardine Sister was shown in spirit the vast desolation caused by the devil throughout the world, and at the same time she heard the Blessed Virgin Mary telling her it was true, hell had been let loose upon the earth; and that the time had come to pray to her as Queen of Angels and to ask of her the assistance of the Heavenly Legions to fight against these deadly foes of God and of men. "But my good Mother," she replied, "you who are so kind, could you not send them without our asking?" "No," Our Lady answered, "because prayer is one of the conditions required by God Himself for obtaining favors." --- NewsGate v1.0 gamma 2 * Origin: News Gate @ Net396 -Huntsville, AL - USA (1:396/4) .