In July 1925, Father Eust\u00e1quio, Father Gil, and Father Mathias arrived in \u00c1gua Suja\/MG, today the city of Romaria, in the Tri\u00e2ngulo Mineiro region. There, they began the work of what would later officially become the province of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts in Brazil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In his testimony to the Tribunal for the Cause of Beatification and Canonization of Father Eust\u00e1quio, Father Gil recounts that the place had been without a parish priest for two years:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201c\u00c1gua-Suja was a parish in the diocese of Uberaba, which had a sanctuary called Our Lady of the Abbey. Both the parish and the sanctuary were served by the local parish priest. When we arrived, the place had been without a resident priest for two years and was being served by a Sunday Mass celebrated by the neighboring priest from Estrela do Sul.<\/em>\u201dsays Father Gil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The city's situation was far from good. There were many moral and religious ills; the priests then arrived with the desire to change that reality. Father Eust\u00e1quio taught catechism to children and showed a predilection for the poor and the sick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cFather Eust\u00e1quio began attending to a boy who was covered in sores; he himself, as he told me, cleaned those wounds, taking the child and administering remedies to him; the fact is that the boy came to be cured; his father, who was one of those henchmen who killed for the hire of contractors who killed rivals, came to thank Father Eust\u00e1quio for curing his son and to offer him his services free of charge against any adversary Father Eust\u00e1quio might have.<\/em>\u201dFather Gil recounts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Father Eust\u00e1quio was always the first to arrive at the church to hear confessions and never left a sick person without a visit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201c"From the point of view of religious observance, I can say that Father Eust\u00e1quio was exemplary, he was constantly faithful. Among the religious who surrounded me, I can point to Father Eust\u00e1quio as one of the most observant, and certainly one of the most esteemed of his confreres."\u201d<\/em> Father Gil spoke to the Court in 1962.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Em julho de 1925, Padre Eust\u00e1quio, Padre Gil e Padre Mathias chegam a \u00c1gua Suja\/MG, hoje a cidade de Romaria, no Tri\u00e2ngulo Mineiro. L\u00e1, eles come\u00e7aram os trabalhos daquela que, mais tarde, seria oficialmente a prov\u00edncia da Congrega\u00e7\u00e3o dos Sagrados Cora\u00e7\u00f5es no Brasil. Em depoimento ao Tribunal da Causa de Beatifica\u00e7\u00e3o e Canoniza\u00e7\u00e3o do Padre Eust\u00e1quio, Padre Gil conta que h\u00e1 dois anos o local estava sem p\u00e1roco: \u201c\u00c1gua-Suja era uma par\u00f3quia da diocese de Uberaba, que tinha um santu\u00e1rio denominado Nossa Senhora da Abadia. Par\u00f3quia e Santu\u00e1rio eram assistidos pelo pr\u00f3prio p\u00e1roco do lugar. Quando n\u00f3s chegamos, havia dois […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noticias"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n