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João de Oliveira Matos Ferreira
Portuguese priest
SaintPortugalPost-1588
Feast: 29 August (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
1879
Died
1962
Beatified
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not on record
Canonised
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not on record
Who they were
João de Oliveira Matos Ferreira (1 March 1879 – 29 August 1962) was a Portuguese Roman Catholic prelate and bishop who served in Guarda from his appointment in 1922 until his death. He was also the founder of the League of the Servants of Jesus.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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Sources
- Wikidata Q15821917 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — João de Oliveira Matos Ferreira (CC BY-SA)
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