Chico Xavier

The Greatest Brazilian of All Time

"Chico Xavier", born as "Francisco de Paula Cândido", and later known as Francisco Cândido Xavier, was born in the city of Pedro Leopoldo, State of Minas Gerais on April 2, 1910, and died in your house in Uberaba, state of Minas Gerais on June 30, 2002, at the age of 92 years old due to a cardiorespiratory arrest.

Philanthropist and spiritist medium, over his 60 years of working spiritual life, Chico Xavier wrote more than 490 books and other thousand letters using a process known as "psychography".

Chico Xavier's spiritual guide was Emmanuel, who according to Xavier, lived in ancient Rome as Senator Publius Lentulus, then reincarnated in Spain as Father Damien, and later as a professor at the University of Paris, Sorbonne.

Chico Xavier's books ranged from topics like religion, philosophy, and science to poetry, Literature, novels and historical romances, also thousands of psychography letters written down during his sessions with disconsolate families.

Participating on TV talk shows in the late 1960s and early 1970s, helped to establish the religion called "Spiritism" which sooner become as one of the major religions professed in Brazil, with more than 5 million believers. Despite his health problems, he kept working up to his death.

In 2010, a movie biography entitled "Chico Xavier" was released in Brazil. Directed by Daniel Filho, the film dramatized Xavier's life.

On October 3, 2012, the SBT television TV show O Maior Brasileiro de Todos os Tempos named Chico Xavier "The Greatest Brazilian of all time", based on a viewer-supported survey.

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