Donizetti Tavares de Lima
Donizetti Tavares de Lima (3 January 1882 – 16 June 1961) was a Brazilian Catholic priest.
Tavares de Lima was ordained to the priesthood in 1908 and served as a parish priest in various churches across Brazil but was noted for his extensive work at the San Antonio church in Tambaú where he lived most of his life. He was famed for his reported miracles and other wonders that began around the 1920s and continued until his death. But this produced some consternation in the local bishop who, in 1955, ordered him to give one final blessing to the public and then to retreat to normal parish duties with no more talk of miracles or healings. He did so in obedience and continued to exercise his functions as a parish priest until his death.
The priest had been hailed as a saint his lifetime, and efforts to launch a beatification process started in 1991. The cause opened towards the decade's end and he became titled as a Servant of God. Pope Francis confirmed his heroic virtue on 9 October 2017 and named him as Venerable. Francis also signed a decree on 6 April 2019 that recognized a miracle attributed to his intercession, which made it possible for him to be beatified in Tambaú on 23 November 2019.
In the Martyrology
- June 16 Blessed Donizetti Tavares de Lima, priest