A testimony given by Cardinal Dom Serafim Fernandes de Ara\u00fajo in 2006 details the extraordinary event that led to Father Eust\u00e1quio being recognized as Blessed. The miracle was the cure of throat cancer that Father Gon\u00e7alo Bel\u00e9m Rocha had.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read Dom Serafim's testimony in full:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAnd the miracle of the beatification? God sent it in the form of affection and tenderness. One Thursday morning, Father Gon\u00e7alo Bel\u00e9m Rocha asked Dom Jo\u00e3o and me to receive him at the Cristo Rei Palace. He had something important to tell us. We received him without knowing the nature of what had happened. He came to say goodbye to us, as he had been diagnosed with throat cancer. He was to have surgery on Monday and would probably never speak again, due to possible complications from the malignancy of the tumor. We were distraught. Father Gon\u00e7alo Bel\u00e9m wept, and we both wept with our friend and son. That's how we said goodbye. Dom Jo\u00e3o looked at me, I looked at Dom Jo\u00e3o, and an inspiration came to me. I said: \u201cDom Jo\u00e3o, let's go up to the Chapel and expressly and fervently ask God, through the intercession of Father Eust\u00e1quio, to heal Father Bel\u00e9m.\u201d We spent a few minutes praying. And we placed that priest in the heart of God, through the hands of Father Eust\u00e1quio. During the operation on Monday, when Father Bel\u00e9m was taken to the operating room, something unthinkable had happened. The doctors exchanged glances, but the X-ray confirmed: \u201cthere was nothing to be removed.\u201d Someone had arrived first! And there is Father Bel\u00e9m, safe and sound, a living votive offering of God's miracle!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Cardinal Dom Serafim Fernandes de Ara\u00fajo<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Um depoimento dado pelo Cardeal Dom Serafim Fernandes de Ara\u00fajo em 2006, traz detalhes do fato extraordin\u00e1rio que fez com que Padre Eust\u00e1quio fosse reconhecido como Beato. O milagre foi a cura de um c\u00e2ncer de garganta que o Padre Gon\u00e7alo Bel\u00e9m Rocha tinha. Leia o depoimento de Dom Serafim na \u00edntegra: “E o milagre da beatifica\u00e7\u00e3o? Deus o mandou em forma de carinho e de ternura. Em certa manh\u00e3 de uma quinta-feira, Padre Gon\u00e7alo Bel\u00e9m Rocha pediu que Dom Jo\u00e3o e eu o receb\u00eassemos no Pal\u00e1cio Cristo Rei. Tinha algo de importante para comunicar-nos. N\u00f3s o recebemos, sem saber […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noticias"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n