The Entities
(Spirits)
St. Ignatius of Loyola
St. Ignatius was born in 1941 at Loyola near Azpeitia in Biscay, and founder of The Society of Jesus Christ (Jesuits).
His mother died when he was only 8 years old and he became an orphan when his father died when he was 14 years old.
He was going to pursue a military career but a canon ball broke his leg and his career became to an end.
During convalescence he had only -Lives of Jesus Christ and the saints to read.
He was so inspired with his readings that had the strong desire to serve God.
St. Ignatius traveled to Montserrat in 1522 and arrived in Paris in 1528 to complete his priestly studies.
In Paris he recruited six companions, who vowed to observe poverty and charity and to go to Jerusalem and offered them to the Pope for God’s service.
In 1531 Pope Paul III allowed them to become priests.
In 1540 Pope Paul III approved their work where they made a permanent religious order.
Again in 1541 St. Ignatius was elected superior of the order and remained until his death on July 31, 1556.
Zeal for God glory and the salvation of souls, personal love for Jesus Christ, heroic obedience and loyalty to Christ vicar on earth dominated St. Ignatius life and made him an outstanding leader in the work of the Counter Reformation.
He was canonized by Pope Gregory XV, on March 12, 1862.
His feast is kept on July 31.
Dr. Fritz
Not much is known about this Entity. Dr. Fritz revealed himself to be a spirit of a German doctor surgeon in the German Army, who died in the World War I and wanted to continue serving mankind from the spirit world.
Dr. Augusto de Almeida
Medium John says that he knows Dr. Augusto de Almeida from past lives.
Dr. Augusto de Almeida was a military officer, a medical doctor and a rubber taper.
His spirit is one of the most frequently incorporated Entities at the Casa de Dom Inácio.
He is recognized for his strict and occasionally harsh manners, a true military attitude.
He demands great discipline and is extremely just, performs his work with a serious manner and does not admit interruptions during attendance to the public.
Dr. Osvaldo Cruz
Osvaldo Cruz was born in São Luiz do Paraitinga, São Paulo in 1872.
He was extremely intelligent and by the age of 5 he was already able to read and write.
He was admitted into Medicine school when he was 15 years old. At the age of 20 he concluded is medicine studies.
In 1896 Osvaldo Cruz traveled to France and was accepted into the Pasteur Institute, where he worked for 3 years.
He developed an intensive campaign in Brazil of compulsory vaccination and effective protection against yellow fever, mosquitoes and rats.
Osvaldo Cruz received several national and international awards and was even elected for the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
He sadly died in 1917 before reaching the age of 45. He left as inheritance a foundation which produced 60% of vaccines worldwide.
St. Francis Xavier
He was born in 1506 at the castle of Javier nearby the city of Pamplona in Spain.
He was born to a noble family, rich in material possessions and grew up among riches and traditions.
Francis Xavier was very intelligent and dedicated to his studies.
In the college of St. Barbara in Paris he met Peter Faber and Saint Ignatius of Loyola, which whom they all became friends.
He graduated in philosophy in 1526 and received a degree of masters in 1530.
On August 15, 1534 under the leadership of St. Ignatius of Loyola, Francis, Peter Faber and four other friends made vows of poverty and charity and were the first Jesuits and future founders of the Society of Jesus.
Francis Xavier went on to preach in India, Japan and in other Eastern Nations.
Francis Xavier died at the age of 46 on 3th December 1552 on the Chinese Coast.
Despite the considerable amount of chalk placed inside his coffin for a quick decomposition of the body which would allow only his bones to be transported back.
Three months later his coffin was open and his friends were surprised and amazed to find that there was no smell and the body remained in perfect condition.
The body was taken to Malaga and then to Goa where it remains to this day at the Basilica of Bom Jesus and is a daily shrine for the devotion of worshippers.
He preformed several unexplainable cures during his life and many miracles are attributed to his intercession because he attended to prayers that were performed in the presence of his body.
He was canonized on March12, 1622.
He was proclaimed the Universal patron of missions by Pope Pius XI and is widely regarded as the greatest of all missionaries.
Dr. Bezerra de Menezes
Adolfo was born in Jaguaretama, Ceara State in Brazil on 29th August 1831.
He was a professor, doctor, Military Officer, politician businessman and writer.
Despite being a wealthy man, his father jeopardized his fortune by helping others.
He left honour and steady character as inheritance.
Adolfo Bezerra de Menezes was initially a Catholic and converted to Spiritism after reading Allan Kardec, Spirit Book
Dr. Menezes following statement represents his professional attitude:
-A doctor does not have the right to finish his meal nor to inquire if a place is near or far when an afflicted person knocks at his door. A doctor who does not offer assistance because of visits, excessive tiredness because of the lateness of the hour, bad road or weather, distance, who asks for a car to someone who cannot pay for the prescription or tells someone who cries at his door to seek another, is not a doctor but a businessman of medicine.
Dr. Bezerra de Menezes was known as the -doctor for the poor- because of his dedication and charitable spirit.
He was the president of the Brazilian Spiritist Federation for several years and earned the title of -Brazilian Kardec- for his good deeds. He died on 11th April 1900.
Dr. André Luis
André Luis is not his real name and very little is known about him.
All that is known is that he worked as a doctor in Rio de Janeiro in the early 20th century.
Some people argue that he may have been Carlos Chagas.
He revealed a rich and vast contribution from the spiritual domain and several books of his books were psycho graphed by Francisco Candido Xavier.
His first and most famous book was "O Nosso Lar" , translated into English as the "Astral City" , which was published in 1944.
Amor
This Entity when questioned about the identity the Entity answers that its name is Amor (Love) and considers identification irrelevant.
The identification of the spirit is least important what matters is the quality of the performed procedure.
Sister Scheilla
Sister Scheilla was born in Germany. She was a nurse and aided victims during the Second World War.
She died in July of 1943 during a violent air raid.
It is reported that in a previous life she lived in France with the name of Jeanne Francoise Fremiot.
She was born in Dijon on January 28, 1572 and died in Moulin on December13, 1641.
During her French existence she worked intensely for social assistance and was canonized in 1767 as Saint Joan of Chantal. The Spirit of sister Scheilla is particularly known for attendance on sick people. Her presence is noted at the Casa by a perfumed scent in the room.
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José Penteado.
This Entity visits the Casa frequently simply announcing "I am José", nothing is known about this Entity as he does not disclose himself .
Emmanuel
Emmanuel is well known because he was Chico Xavier Spiritual Mentor.
It is widely known that he was the proud Roman Senator Publires Lentrelus 2000 years ago, who lived for Caesar.
His Spirit began to rescue past failures in the search for evolution and reincarnated as the slave Nestorius.
Nestorius died in a Roman arena together with Christian elderly people, youths and children, who served as a public spectacle by being devoured by beasts.
About 150 years later he returned to earth as a Roman patrician Quinto Varro who assumed the identity of an old preacher named Corvino in order to escape a conspiracy to kill him. After being convicted for be heading, he was granted a slow death in jail.
Centuries later he reincarnated once again in 1517 in Portugal as the priest Manuel da Nobrega.
Priest Nobrega was one of the main figures of the Society of Jesus founded by Saint Ignatius of Loyola and played a prominent role in the history of Brazil through the founding of Piratinunga College, which was the birthplace of the great metropolis of São Paulo.
He died of tuberculosis in Rio de Janeiro at the age of 53.
Euripedes Barsanulfo
Euripedes Barsanulfo was born on 1st May 1880 in the town of Sacramento, Minas Gerais State in Brazil.
He was very intelligent and was an educator from a early age. He was designated by his professors to teach his own classmates.
Because of his strong leadership qualities he went on to occupy the post of secretary of the brotherhood of Saint Vincent de Paul.
He was an autodidact and worked as a professor of several subjects, as a journalist and as a politician.
He became familiar with the works of codifier Alan Kardec through his uncle.
He also converted to Spiritism.
During his period he revealed various mediumistic abilities, especially healing.
His own mother was the first person to benefit from cures performed through his mediation.
The town of Sacramento become a peregrination centre for people who sought some sort of relief from physical and psychological ailments.
Euripedes attended all who went to see him with joy and dedication.
His Spiritual activities continually increased and he felt the need to make the new doctrine known and to increase the number of followers with support from some relatives and friends he founded the Hope and Charity Spiritist Centre, which resulted in the intensification of doctrinaires and assistance work.
In 1907 Barsanulfo founded the Allan Kardec School which became a model educational Institute in the region and subsequently in the whole of Brazil.
Barsanulfo did not seek religious confrontations but on one occasion humbly accepted a challenge of public debate with a representative of the Catholic Church. His performance was brilliant in every aspect, having preached love, tolerance and charity.
All his energies were spent in assisting the poor victims of the worldwide Spanish influenza epidemic.
He died on 1st November 1918.
King Solomon
King Solomon was the second son of King David.
He ruled Israel for forty years according to Biblical accounts.
As a ruler he was notorious for his administrative competence, he built roads and intensified commerce which spread to distant corners of his Kingdom .
Even though he had powerful armies at his command he preferred to establish commerce than to go to war and possessed an extreme ability to maintain peace and to avoid conflicts.
Solomon possessed a cosmic awareness and perfectly distinguished negative and positive forces present in the knowledge acquired through meditation.
Therefore free will would allow the use of negative interests and directed his mind to the good side of knowledge.
In historical terms he is known for his sense of justice.
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José Valdivino:
No one knows exactly who he was when incarnated. He is very friendly, affectionate, closely linked to family links and affairs. He is extremely helpful to those he attends. Medium John says that José Valdivino was a legal judge during his earthly life.
Francisco Xavier ( Chico Xavier )
Francisco Xavier was born 2 April 1910 in Pedro Leopoldo in Brazil, and died on 30 June 2002 in Uberaba, Brazil. Famous Brazilian Spiritist medium. (Spiritism, the Brazilian form of Spiritualism, stems from the teachings of French Spiritist Allan Kardec.) Known throughout Brazil as Chico Xavier), He was one of a family of nine children. His mother died when he was only five, but Chico saw her materialize after her death, and during his period at primary school three years later, be became accustomed to hearing voices and sensing spirit presences.
He won an honorable mention for an essay contest with an entry that appeared to be dictated to him by a spirit form. On being challenged to produce another -spirit essay- he went straight to the blackboard and started writing a profound statement on the theme suggested, after which the teacher recommended he stop talking about spirit voices and pray on conventional Catholic lines.
He became a practicing medium in 1927 soon after one of his sisters was cured of apparent possession through the efforts of a healing medium. The whole Xavier family became Spiritists, and the medium s wife, Carmen Peracio, founded an evangelical Spiritist center, where Xavier manifested ability for automatic writing. At one of these sessions, Peracio had a vision of a priestly spirit, -Emmanuel- who became Xavier-s spirit guide thereafter. Xavier-s Mediumship continued in the form of automatic writing from spirit dictation.
Although nearly blind in one eye through most of his life and with only a rudimentary primary education, Xavier produced a prodigious number of books recognizably in the style of hundreds of deceased Brazilian and Portuguese authors whose works he had never had the opportunity to study.In addition, he visited invalids in the district and undertook voluntary social work at his Pedro Leopoldo Spiritist Center at Uberaba. Hundreds of visitors came to this center for a personal message delivered by Xavier in trance, with instructions on individual problems, whether spiritual or medical. He has written some 130 books, of which over 3,000,000 copies have been sold in 415 editions. Some of these books have been translated into Spanish, French, Japanese, Esperanto, and English.
His book Evolucão em dois mundos (Evolution in Two Worlds, 1959) was written in collaboration with Dr. Waldo Vieira, who lived 250 miles away. The chapters were written alternately in uniform style and continuity, and the work took only forty days. It contained scientific concepts beyond the medium-s understanding, suggesting to many that such information does not come from the medium's subconscious. Brazilian Spiritists follow Allan Kardec in clearly distinguishing between escrita automatica (automatic writing involving the medium-s subconscious) and psiografia (involving a spirit entity).
In spite of the enormous popularity of his prodigious literary output, Xavier never accepted payment for any of his books and even disclaimed personal credit by the phrase -dictated by the spirit of- on the title page.
He left Brazil only on two occasions. In 1965 and 1966 he made brief trips to Spiritualist centers abroad and a pilgrimage to the tomb of Allan Kardec in Paris, France. He appeared on Brazilian television programs, but remained a modest, sincere individual who devoted his psychic gift to the service of mankind. He was made an honorary citizen of Sao Paulo in 1973, and was similarly honored by other cities and towns in Brazil, including Rio de Janeiro, Uberada, Campinas, and São Bernardo. In 1977, the government of Brazil endorsed Xavier's half century as a medium by issuing a postage stamp in his honor. This official recognition of Spiritism is unique to Brazil; the government has also issued postage stamps honoring Allan Kardec and his teachings
