page_title: Donizetti Tavares de Lima
hierarchical_section_title: Donizetti Tavares de Lima
caption_attribution_description: English: Donizetti Tavares de Lima (1882-1961), Brazilian Roman Catholic priest, Venerable Français&#160;: Donizetti Tavares de Lima (1882-1961), prêtre catholique brésilien, vénérable
context_page_description: Donizetti Tavares de Lima was a Brazilian Roman Catholic priest. He 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 drew some consternation from the local bishop in 1955 who 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 entire life 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.
context_section_description: Donizetti Tavares de Lima (3 January 1882 – 16 June 1961) was a Brazilian Roman Catholic priest. He 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 drew some consternation from the local bishop in 1955 who 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 entire life 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.
caption: Fr. Donizetti circa 1920.
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