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Francisco De Aquino Correia
Francisco de Aquino Correia (April 2, 1885March 22, 1956) was a Brazilian Catholic priest, poet, and politician. He was the tenth Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cuiabá, archbishop of Cuiabá, president (governor) of the Federative units of Brazil, state of Mato Grosso from 1918 to 1922, and a leading cultural figure of the state in the early 20th century. Aquino Correia was an accomplished poet and writer and became the first citizen of Mato Grosso native to belong to the Academia Brasileira de Letras, Brazilian Academy of Letters. He was also one of the founding members of the Mato Grosso Academy of Letters (''Academia Mato-grossense de Letras'') and the Mato Grosso Historical and Geographical Institute (''Instituto Histórico e Geográfico de Mato Grosso''). Aquino Correia was instrumental in the construction of the Eucharistic Shrine of Our Lady of Good Delivery, a Gothic Revival architecture, Neogothic church resembling the Notre-Dame de Paris, Notre Dame in Paris, but not oth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salesians Of Don Bosco
The Salesians of Don Bosco (SDB), formally known as the Society of Saint Francis de Sales (), is a religious congregation of men in the Catholic Church, founded in the late 19th century by Italian priest Saint John Bosco to help poor children during the Industrial Revolution. The congregation was named after Saint Francis de Sales, a 17th-century bishop of Geneva. The Salesians' charter describes the society's mission as "the Christian perfection of its associates obtained by the exercise of spiritual and corporal works of charity towards the young, especially the poor, and the education of boys to the priesthood". Its associated women's institute is the Salesian Sisters of Don Bosco, while the lay movement is the Association of Salesian Cooperators. History In 1845 Don John Bosco ("Don (honorific)#Italy, Don" being a traditional Italian honorific for priest) opened a night school for boys in Valdocco (Turin), Valdocco, now part of the municipality of Turin in Italy. In the foll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
