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Mateus Moreira
Brazilian Catholic martyr and saint
SaintPost-1588
Feast: 3 October (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
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unknown
Died
1645
Beatified
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not on record
Canonised
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not on record
Who they were
Mateus Moreira (d. 3 October 1645) was a Portuguese martyr, from Colonial Brazil, of the Catholic Church. He was beatified on March 5, 2000 and canonized on October 15, 2017, along with the other Martyrs of Natal.
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The miracles
Limited information available on this saint.
Why that counted as sanctity
Limited information available on this saint.
Sources
- Wikidata Q10327335 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Mateus Moreira (CC BY-SA)
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