Luciano Pedro Mendes de Almeida
Brazilian Jesuit, archbishop of Mariana and advocate for abandoned children
Who they were
Mendes de Almeida was auxiliary bishop in the poor eastern districts of São Paulo, where he organised about a hundred homes for abandoned children, and from 1988 archbishop of Mariana.
The miracles
No miracle has been approved. The cause is at its first stage.
Why that counted as sanctity
His cause was opened by the archdiocese of Mariana in 2014.
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.