Domingos Evangelista Pinheiro
Brazilian priest who founded the Auxiliary Sisters of Our Lady of Piety
Who they were
Domingos Evangelista Pinheiro, a priest of Caeté in Minas Gerais, founded the Auxiliary Sisters of Our Lady of Piety. Santiebeati gives his birth as 21 June 1843, where the Hagiography Circle record says 21 July 1843.
The miracles
No miracle has been approved. The cause is at its first stage.
Why that counted as sanctity
The diocesan inquiry was opened in the archdiocese of Belo Horizonte on 15 September 2018 and closed in 2022.
The cause
The cause continues. No postulation address is published here yet. Favours received through this person’s intercession, and offers of help, are best sent to the religious order or congregation they belonged to, or to the diocese where the cause was opened; either will pass them to the postulation.
Checked against the sources listed on 24 September 2026. Corrections welcome.