Brazil
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The First Woman Saint from Brazil was a Lifelong Diabetic
By Larry Peterson She was born on December 16, 1865, in the town of Vigolo Vattaro, which was in northern Italy. At the time, this was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Her father, Antonio Visintainer, and her mom, Anna Pianezzer, named her Amabile Lucia. Like most of the people in the area, Amabile’s parents, despite…
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This Portuguese Jesuit was a poet, dramatist, and scholar. He also converted more than one million native Brazilians
Joseph de Anchieta is considered the Apostle of Brazil and the father of Brazilian Literature. Larry Peterson Joseph de Anchieta was born on March 19, 1534, in San Cristobal de La Laguna in a city called Tenerife which was in the Canary Islands. Joseph’s dad was a wealthy landowner who had escaped to Tenerife after…
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