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Bezerra de Menezes declares himself a Spiritist
On 16 August 1886 the physician and politician Adolfo Bezerra de Menezes publicly announced his conversion to Spiritism in Rio. He went on to lead the FEB and was nicknamed 'the doctor of the poor'.
1886 CE · -22.91, -43.18 · status: official
The account
After his death in 1900 mediums across Brazil, including Chico Xavier, claimed to receive messages from his spirit, and he is the most invoked spirit guide in Brazilian Spiritist centres.
Connections in the atlas
- Eurípedes Barsanulfo's Spiritist school at Sacramento
- Founding of the Brazilian Spiritist Federation
- Chico Xavier's 'Parnaso de Além-Túmulo'