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In recognition of the tireless work of Father John Mary, Rio Grande do Norte, so the call on "The Holy Father" The square that bears his name in Upper Town in Natal, live every day with hundreds of faithful who ask and thank both the graces received through the "Priest of the Poor."

A in his honor was placed in the square that bears his name, located behind the old cathedral. The bust was sculpted by hostile Dantas granite pedestal Micussi worked for Michael. Even today, believers often make promises, bless themselves with holy water and thank the "saint" with small objects that allude to the graces obtained. Father John Maria Cavalcanti de Brito was born on June 23, 1848, in Clay's Backyard Farm, belonging to the municipality before the Caicó and today, Garden of Piranhas. Son of Amaro Cavalcanti de Brito Soares de Barros and Ana Cavalcanti, received baptism at his home, the custom in those times Seridó region.

The eldest son of the family, John Mary had three sisters and one brother, militancy Cavalcanti de Brito, Ana Cavalcanti, Josefina Amaro Cavalcanti and Cavalcanti. What was unique in the ancient rural families only men could develop their studies. As a boy, John, Maria began to get in touch with the harsh reality of the interior, the paradox of the field between the constant and periodic droughts, their first letters, to four years, were the father, this one, concerned with the education of children "Master Amaro," as he was known, sent his son to improve his studies at the Teacher's School in Garden Manoel Pines Piranhas both settled in the urban area with a school child literacy.

At age 13 became evident in John's vocation to the religious life of Mary. In 1861 the seminary faced Olinda in Pernambuco, in the company of his father and a friend. Path made on horseback. The seminar began to develop his true vocation to the priesthood, there studied the preparatory course and did the church, including philosophy, dogmatic and moral theology and liturgy. Completing that course in Fortaleza, Ceará.

The young John Mary just completed his studies in 1871 where he received the subdiaconate on November 6 and November 30 the diaconate, on the same date was ordained a priest by the bishop of Fortaleza Dom Luiz dos Santos. On December 10, a Sunday, celebrated his first Mass in the parish of St. Anne matrix Caicó, realizing his oldest dream. In 1876 he was appointed vicar of Sabugo Santa Luzia, Paraíba, and then take back to the parish of Acari in the year 1877. The year 1881 is probably the most important in the life of Father John Mary, this year the vicar Christmas, Father Jose Herminio missionary fell ill and thus takes over from the 07th August of that year the parish of Our Lady of the Presentation Christmas, extending over the next 24 years. In his first Mass on Christmas, the stranger spoke the words that eternalized as his life motto of "be everything to everybody."

He was a man of behavior introspective, dark skin, sunburned from hiking, resorting every believer at the time of extreme distress. Always went to walk his visits in the poor houses of the city "in his endearing humility and in his unassuming modesty, his gentleness in attractive, in their feelings of justice, tempered with sweet goodness and selflessness of sharp things of the world, he was well, in the eyes of an entire population that respect, a legitimate representative of Jesus to preach the love with his own example how the meeting came to him at any time of day or night. " Remember Eymard Monsignor Monteiro.
Exercising journalism, founded the newspaper EIGHT SEPTEMBER, with eight pages and date of service of September 8, 1897. By that vehicle, crashed a single combat with the Masons who rejected the principles of the Catholic Church.
The year 1904 arrived in Natal with the scourge of smallpox, the priest devoted mainly to help the victims of the epidemic. A strange custom of the priest was to give the network to be asleep when someone else needed, from sleeping on the floor.

According to reports, excessive work and dedication to the poor led to his death at eight o'clock on the 16th of October 1905, at fifty-seven years old, where his body buried in the Rosemary Cemetery.

One hundred and one years have passed and the first signs give the beatification process of Father John Mary. This process involves doing four distinct historical research surveys containing all of the religious life, the recognition of the whole community; forwarding the case to the Vatican and the investigative analysis of miracles attributed to the religious. Process that is still in its first phase.

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Paulo Roberto de Araújo

Source:
Historical figures of the newborn.

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