Divaldo Pereira Franco
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Divaldo Pereira Franco May 5, 1927 Feira de Santana, Bahia, Brazil |
Divaldo Pereira Franco (born May 5, 1927 in Feira de Santana, Brazil) is a prominent Spiritist speaker and medium.
He represented Spiritism as a delegate to the United Nations August 28–31st, 2000, Millennium World Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders. After the death of Brazilian medium Chico Xavier in 2002, Divaldo became the most representative figure of Spiritism worldwide.
On March 12, 2004, Divaldo presented the seminar Understanding Spiritual and Mental Health at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, in Baltimore.
"Divaldo Pereira Franco offers a psychologized counterpoint to the popular Spiritism paradigm established around the work of Chico Xavier".
"Divaldo Pereira Franco had a prevalent role in the implantation and consolidation of the Spiritist Movement in the United States."
Divaldo Franco
Divaldo Franco em Porto Alegre (2006)
Full Name Divaldo Pereira Franco Known by Being one of the main popularizers of the Spiritist Doctrine
Birth May 5, 1927 (88 anos) Feira de Santana, Bahia
Occupation Professor, psychic, one of the exponents of Spiritism, writer, lecturer and philanthropist
Official web page Www.divaldofranco.com.br
Divaldo Pereira Franco, widely known as Divaldo Franco or simply Divaldo ( Feira de Santana, 5 MAY 1927 ) is a professor, psychic, philanthropist and a great Brazilian Spiritist lecturer . Divaldo is a true "apostle of the Spiritism", with more than fifty years devoted to his * Mediumship and charity, and more than sixty years as an important Spiritist lecturer. Out of his eighty eight years of life, sixty eight of them have been devoted to the cause of Spiritism and the abandoned children from the outskirts of Salvador, Bahia. For the abandoned children he founded on 15 August 1952, along with Nilson de Souza Pereira, the charity institution named (Mansão do Caminho) mansion of Path, which helps around six thousand people daily, and it is home to more than three thousand, hundreds of the children are adopted as the psychics children. The copyrights of his more than 250 psychographed books, which has already sold over 8 million copies, were entirely donated in public notary for this and other philanthropic institutions. [1] [2] [3] Even though he sells big quantity of psycographed books and performs large philanthropic works, he is best known as a great lecturer and missionary of Spiritism abroad. Known as a pilgrim or " Paul of Tarsus of Spiritism", Divaldo has traveled over 50 countries publicizing the doctrine in lectures of very wide publicity. [4]
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