Type: | Priest |
Honorific-Prefix: | Venerable |
Vítor Coelho de Almeida | |
Honorific-Suffix: | C.Ss.R. |
Archdiocese: | Aparecida |
Ordination: | 5 August 1923 |
Rank: | Priest |
Birth Name: | Vítor Coelho de Almeida |
Birth Date: | 22 September 1899 |
Birth Place: | Sacramento, Minas Gerais, Brazil |
Death Place: | Aparecida, Brazil |
Buried: | Basilica of Our Lady of Aparecida, Aparecida, Brazil |
Nationality: | Brazilian |
Religion: | Roman Catholic |
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Vítor Coelho de Almeida (22 September 1899 – 21 July 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]