Blessed Eustáquio van Lieshout
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- Also known as
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Eustachius van Lieshout
Hubertus van Lieshout
Humberto van Lieshout
- Memorial
- 30 August
- Profile
- Eighth of eleven children in a deeply Catholic farm family.
Baptized on the day he was born.
A popular, cheerful child, he early felt a call to the priesthood.
Neither his family nor his teachers thought he could handle the academic part of the vocation, but he studied in Gemert, and did well enough.
After reading a biography of Father Damien de Veuster, Humberto decided to join the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary.
He entered the novitiate in Tremeloo, Belgium on 23 December 1913, and was given the name Eustáquio; he made his permanent vows in 1918, and was ordained on 10 August 1919.
Assistant novice master in the Nederlands for five years.
Notable minister to his charges and his parishioners.
Feeling a call to be a missionary, he was sent to Spain in December 1924 to learn spanish; in 1925 he was sent to Portuguese speaking Brazil.
Worked ten years in Agua Suja, six in Poá, and two in Belo Horizonte.
Noted for his ministry to the poor and the sick.
Had the gift of healing through the intercession of Saint Joseph.
His reputation for holiness and miracles spread; so many people trekked to the towns to see him that the civil government complained.
In 1942 his superiors transferred him to prevent him becoming the focus of the faithful instead of the faith itself, but thousands continued to seek him out.
- Born
- 3 November 1890 at Aarle-Rixtel, North Brabant, Nederlands as Humberto van Lieshout
- Died
- 30 August 1943 at Belo Horizonte, Brazil of typhoid fever;
buried at the church Santo Domingo, Belo Horizonte;
in 1949 he was re-interred at the church of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, Belo Horizonte
- Venerated
- 12 April 2003 by Pope John Paul II
- Beatified
- 15 June 2006 by Pope Benedict XVI;
the recognition liturgy was celebrated in Belo Horizonte, Brazil by Monsignor Walmor de Oliveira de Azevedo, Metropolitan Archbishop of Belo Horizonte
- Canonized
- pending;
if you have information related to the canonization of Blessed Eustáquio, contact:
Padres dos Sagrados Corações
Rua Riachuelo, 1250, Padre Eustáquio
30720-060 Belo Horizonte (MG), BRAZIL
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