Category Archives: Daime Biographies
Disciple of Mestre Irineu, he received from him the gift of expanding the Santo Daime worship to the whole country and beyond its borders… Sebastião Mota de Melo, been born in the rubber plantation Monte Lígia, in 1920, demonstrated propensity to make astral journeys (out of body experiences) and to have visions of enchanted beings […]
On one such occasion a brother lingered four days and four nights until his passing, and not even for a minute Tetéu did leave his side. Consequently, it was four days an four nights that Tetéu spent awake. Therefore, it is assumed that the origin of the nickname “Tetéu”, which he brought from childhood, was […]
Luiz Mendes do Nascimento was born on January 4th, 1940, in the state of Acre, in Brazil. His father was a native of Uruburetama, Ceara, and his mother was of pure Acre descent. His wife, Madrinha Rizelda, is the daughter of Mrs Ana de Souza and of Mr Elias Brito, one of the very first […]
Biography from AFamiliaJuramidam Edited text from the cybermagazine Arca da União, by Eduardo Bayer* Wilson Carneiro de Souza was born in the countryside of the old Federal Territory of Acre [which nowadays is a state], in the proximities of the Tarauacá River, in July 18th of 1920. His parents — Antônio and Antônia — were […]
Biography from AFamiliaJuramidam …they also say that, by the end of the works, when everyone was out of the lines and the battalion already dismissed, he remained at the table singing his hymns, because he did not have much opportunity to do a work with his hinário… — What I know about João Pedro is […]
Biography from AFamiliaJuramidam Leôncio Gomes da Silva was a very humble person in life. He lived near the residence of Mestre Irineu Serra. He worked as a merchant and owned a car that was used for Mestre Irineu himself when he needed to travel afar. According to Mrs. Adália Gomes, was Mr. Leôncio Gomes da […]
Biography from AFamiliaJuramidam Raimundo Gomes Da Silva, son of one of the main disciples of Mestre Irineu, already had ten hymns in his hinário when the fraternity moved to the “Alto da Santa Cruz”, today the Alto Santo, in the Irineu Serra’s district, in Rio Branco, Acre’s Capital. Sebastião Jaccoud, who venerated him as having […]
Biography from AFamiliaJuramidam I have in hands the certificate copy of her civil marriage that she herself offered to me, once I wanted to photograph Mestre Irineu documents, saying that perhaps one day I could need it. There it says that in Rio Branco, Acre, on September the 15th of 1956 — having as witnesses […]