After a period of exile, being transferred from one place to another due to high demand from the population, Father Eust\u00e1quio was then given the mission to become a parish priest in Belo Horizonte.<\/p>\n
According to records, the new parish priest took office one day after his arrival in the capital of Minas Gerais, on April 8, 1942, a Wednesday. Curiously, this was the day the Church dedicates to Saint Joseph, one of Father Eust\u00e1quio's great devotions.<\/p>\n
That year, Dom Ant\u00f4nio dos Santos Cabral entrusted the parish of S\u00e3o Domingos, in Vila Celeste Imp\u00e9rio (present-day Padre Eust\u00e1quio neighborhood) in Belo Horizonte, to the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts. The new mission field would become yet another fruitful field of apostolate, but only in a short space of time.<\/p>\n
In the book, "The Vicar of Po\u00e1," Father Ven\u00e2ncio Hulselmans recounts the beginning of this apostolate in the capital of Minas Gerais. Check it out:<\/p>\n
\u201c"For Father Eust\u00e1quio, Belo Horizonte would become the most fruitful and beneficial field of apostolate. If, in all the places where he was, even in passing, he sought to do good to his neighbor, physically and spiritually, in Belo Horizonte his zeal knew no bounds. One might say that a sad premonition, manifested more than once in enigmatic phrases such as:<\/em><\/p>\n \u201c"I will not see the end of the war; I started the church but I will not finish it," impelled him to expand his activity and win an ever-increasing number of souls.<\/em> Father Eust\u00e1quio, who had hoped to carry out his apostolate in a less crowded environment, felt somewhat embarrassed by the competition, which threatened to make his permanent stay impossible once again.<\/em> Ap\u00f3s passar por um per\u00edodo de ex\u00edlio, sendo transferido de um lado para o outro, por causa da grande procura da popula\u00e7\u00e3o, Padre Eust\u00e1quio, ent\u00e3o recebeu a miss\u00e3o de se tornar p\u00e1roco em Belo Horizonte. Segundo registros, a posse do novo p\u00e1roco aconteceu um dia ap\u00f3s sua chegada \u00e0 capital mineira, no dia 8 de abril de 1942, uma quarta-feira. Curiosamente, dia em que a Igreja dedica a S\u00e3o Jos\u00e9, uma das grandes devo\u00e7\u00f5es de Padre Eust\u00e1quio. Naquele ano, Dom Ant\u00f4nio dos Santos Cabral, confiou \u00e0 Congrega\u00e7\u00e3o dos Sagrados Cora\u00e7\u00f5es, a par\u00f3quia de S\u00e3o Domingos, na Vila Celeste Imp\u00e9rio (atual […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noticias"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\nHis reputation as a "miracle worker" preceded him, so that, soon after his arrival on April 7, 1942, people flocked in droves to the chapel of St. Dominic in the "Celestial Empire" village. <\/em><\/p>\n
\nHe had received strict orders not to attend to people who sought him out at home; not to visit the sick in their residences except those from his own parish; not to give blessings to anyone except through the confessional grille.\u201d<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"