On November 25th of this year, Pope Francis recognized the Heroic Virtues of Odette Vidal Cardoso, the little girl Odetinha. With this decree, the Servant of God received the title of Venerable.

Father Eustáquio held a special affection for little Odetinha. In the Blessed's collection of letters, researchers found several correspondences exchanged between the parents of the girl Odete, Alice Vidal Oliveira and Francisco Oliveira, and the Blessed Father Eustáquio in the early 1940s.

The letters that have already been recovered by the team working on the restoration and cataloging of the collection and objects related to Father Eustáquio date from 1941, and were received by the Blessed or sent by him during his time in the city of Patrocínio, Minas Gerais.

In an excerpt from one of the letters written by Father Eustáquio to Odetinha's parents, the priest recounts the enchantment he felt upon meeting Odetinha and how her life, even though short, helped him to catechize the children:

How is the family? Do we still live always revolving around Odetinha's milk, whose life so enchanted me and whose words I have so often pronounced in the presence of so many children? And as the day of the missions approaches, I remember Odete's beautiful words of offering: "I offer you, O my Jesus, all my sufferings for the missions." From high heaven she will offer her bouquet of the pure lilies of purity and the fragrant roses of love to the Most Divine Heart of Jesus for the benefit of the missions of this vale of tears. Odetinha's tears have always accompanied me and have been for me not only a reminder of many virtues but also a comfort. This excerpt was taken from Father Eustáquio's letter to Odetinha's parents, Alice and Francisco, written by the Blessed in Patrocínio on October 13, 1941, and kept in the archives of the future Father Eustáquio Museum.

Odetinha, a native of Rio de Janeiro, lived only 9 years (1930 to 1939) and died of typhoid fever. Like Father Eustáquio, she became known for her charitable spirit and care for others.

During her illness, while suffering in bed, she would repeat, "I offer you, O my Jesus, all my sufferings for the missions and for poor children.".