Deepertruth: Stand In The Gap With Us And Saint Antônio de Sant’Anna Galvão

Stand In The Gap With Us And Saint Antônio de Sant’Anna Galvão 10/25/2023

May 13, 1739 – December 23, 1822), was a Brazilian friar of the Franciscan Order. One of the best-known religious figures in colonial Brazil, renowned for his healing powers.

God’s plan in a person’s life often takes unexpected turns which become life-giving through cooperation with God’s grace.

Born in Guarantingueta near São Paulo, Antônio attended the Jesuit seminary in Belem, but later decided to become a Franciscan friar. Invested in 1760, he made final profession the following year and was ordained in 1762.

Galvão was a man of great and intense prayer, and mystic phenomena attributed to him include telepathy, premonitio,and levitation.He was reportedly  biolocation in order to take care of sick or dying people who had asked for his help

In São Paulo, he served as preacher, confessor, and porter. Within a few years, Antônio was appointed confessor to the Recollects of Saint Teresa, a group of nuns in that city. He and Sister Helena Maria of the Holy Spirit founded a new community of sisters under the patronage of Our Lady of the Conception of Divine Providence. Sister Helena Maria’s premature death the next year left Father Antônio responsible for the new congregation, especially for building a convent and church adequate for their growing numbers.