Óscar González-Quevedo Bruzón (15 December 1930 – 9 January 2019) was a

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-born

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ian

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priest. He was an investigator in the field of

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Life

Quevedo was born in

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in a deeply Catholic family, with uncles and cousins ordained priests and a sister and a first cousin, nuns. His first cousin, Teresita González Quevedo, a Carmelite sister, is on her way to

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(a step before becoming a saint) in the Catholic Church. When González Quevedo was a child, an uncle, Horatio, from Gibraltar was trying to influence him with Allan Kardec's literature. At the time, Óscar and his mother Ángeles Bruzon were exiled in Gibraltar. They were escaping the Spanish Communist Republic. His father, an ardent Catholic, was martyred at the hands of the Republicans for defending Catholicism. As he was very curious and liked to read, he began to study those “amazing phenomena”, resulting in all sorts of questions and a powerful drive to study more. Several years later, conversations with the nephew changed his uncle’s beliefs in Spiritism. He has surviving family in Gibraltar as his mother was Gibraltarian. Early in his life, he discovered his vocation to become a priest, while attending a Jesuit secondary school in Vigo, Spain. Well-equipped with a solid academic background he was ordained priest in 1961. His superior sent him to

, a fertile field to research areas of superstitions, religious sects, and parapsychological phenomena. His background included knowledge of illusionism and magic. This was necessary to uncover all sorts of misconceptions and frauds. He was the founder and director of the Latin American Center of Parapsychology, located in

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, Brazil, where he worked on a daily basis, except while traveling domestically or throughout the world, teaching and conducting all sorts of conferences and workshops on

. González Quevedo read

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, English, French and

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, besides being fluent in

and Portuguese.

Books

*''O que é parapsicologia'' *''A face Oculta da Mente'' *''As Forças Físicas da Mente'' *''O Poder da mente na cura e na doença'' *''Antes que os demônios voltem'', Loyola *''Os Espíritos e os Fenômenos Parafísicos'' *''Há provas de que os mortos agem?'' *''Identificação dos mortos?'' *''As provas da ciência'' *''Palavra de Iahweh'' *''Nossa Senhora de Guadalupe'' *''Milagres - A Ciência Confirma a Fé'' *''Os Milagres e a Ciência'' *''Milagres na história da Igreja''

References

External links

Centro Latino-Americano de Parapsicologia
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gonzalez-Quevedo, Oscar 1930 births 2019 deaths 20th-century Brazilian Jesuits 20th-century Spanish Jesuits Parapsychologists Spanish emigrants to Brazil Writers from Madrid People from São Paulo