Chico Xavier, 100 years

The Brazilian people and the spirit of the world honor the centennial
of his birth, the apostle of love and charity and the most
important medium in the history of Spiritism

 
This year will be marked by successive homage to the Brazilian people will pay to the late medium Francisco Cândido Xavier in the year of the centenary of his birth.

Born on April 2, 1910 and christened with the name of Francisco de Paula Cândido, Chico Xavier became famous not only as a medium and one of the largest publishers in the history of Spiritualism, but as a true apostle of love and charity.

Born in Sao Leopoldo, metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte, his parents were named Maria João de Deus and João Cândido Xavier. Educated in the Catholic faith, Chico had his first contact with the Spiritist Doctrine in 1927, during an obsessive process, which affected one of his sisters. He proceeded to study and develop their abilities, which, as he reported in a note in the book Parnassus from Beyond the Grave, only gained greater clarity at the end of 1931. His baptismal name was given him in honor of the holy day

of his birth, but soon broke with Catholicism and wrote his first book, was replaced by the name of Francisco Cândido Xavier, this change officially years later, in April 1966 during a trip to the United States.

According to his biographers, the psychic power of Chico would have shown the first time to four years old when he answered his father about science, during a conversation with you about pregnancy. He would see and hear spirits and talk to them. At five years talking to her mother, so disembodied. In her godmother's house, was severely mistreated, and can take bites in the belly. At seven years old, left her godmother's house to return to live with his father, who had married a second time. To assist in funding the expenses of the house, the boy worked and studied in public school.

In the year 1924 finished primary school and not returned to school, devoting himself entirely to work. In May 1927, attended a seance where he saw the Spirit of his mother, who advised him to read the works of Allan Kardec. In June he helped found the Spiritist Center Luiz Gonzaga in July and started work in the field of psychographics. In 1928, aged 18, began publishing his first messages through automatic writing in the newspapers O Jornal of Rio de Janeiro and Almanac News from Portugal.

Chico Xavier disincarnated on 30 June 2002, at 92 years

On May 22, 1965 Chico Xavier and Waldo Vieira traveled to Washington, United States, to disseminate Spiritism abroad. With the help of Solomon Salim Haddad, president of the Christian Spirit Center, and his wife Phillis, launched the book there Spiritist Ideal, a version for the English language.

On July 28, 1971 gave an interview for Rede Tupi of Television, Drip Fire with Chico Xavier, who became famous and was, according to several scholars of Spiritism, a decisive penetration of the Spiritist Doctrine in the media. Chico Xavier desincarnated on 30 June 2002, at 92 years of age due to cardiac failure. As reports of close friends and relatives, he had asked God to disembody
on a day when the Brazilians were happy and the country party, so that no one would be saddened by his passing. On the day of his death in Brazil celebrated winning the FIFA World Cup 2002 and the news came as the party for that conquest had begun.

Chico Xavier, shortly before his death, was elected in a contest promoted by Rede Globo Minas Gerais, the Minas' Citizen of the twentieth century, competing with well-known personalities such as Santos Dumont and Juscelino Kubitschek.

Before his death, he would have left a kind of code with people you trust so that they could ratify his presence when there was a contact. Now we approach the eighth year of his death and no contact has been confirmed so far.

The fact is mentioned in a report published by Isto É magazine in 26/2/2010, that we extract the following passage:

"Hopefully, those who dedicated their life to be the voice of spirits hold any communication with the living after death. Since the death of Chico Xavier, nearly eight years, numerous mediums appeared claiming to be recipients of messages sent by him . To circumvent the profiteers, Chico arranged a secret code with the three people closest to him - the adopted son, Euripides Higino dos Reis, the doctor, Euripides Vieira Tahan, and Kátia Maria, a friend and companion until his death. When and if there is communication, the message is received by some medium and contain three elements. The three are still waiting. "Unfortunately, until today, neither was it," says the son."

This report can be viewed on the internet from this link: http://www.istoe.com.br/.

Register that the same people confirmed the above information on the program Globo Reporter show on the night of March 26 by Rede Globo TV.  (Click in this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jnY5sVz5j0.)

His works psychic sold more than 50 million copies in Portuguese

Chico Xavier psychographed 409 books, 39 published after the death, but never admitted being the author of any of these works. Reproduces only what the spirits he dictated and made a point of saying that he was only the instrument and that the work of spirits. For this reason, never accepted the money from the sale of his books, whose copyrights graciously gave spirit to organizations and charities different from the first book.

His works psychic sold more than 50 million copies in Portuguese, with translations in English, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Mandarin, Swedish and Braille. But he psychographics, as well as books, about 10 thousand letters from people recently deceased for their families, a fact that became even more known and close to Brazilians.

His first book, Parnassus from Beyond the Grave, with 256 poems written by poets and Brazilian Portuguese disembodied, like John of God, war Junqueiro, Olavo Bilac, Cruz e Sousa, Augusto dos Anjos, was first published in 1932. Chico had the time 22 years of age. The book, not surprisingly, has generated much controversy in literary circles of the time and still remains as one of his most relevant.

But the book, which reached up to now the largest circulation is Our Home, published early in 1944, currently has over 2 million copies sold, the work of André Luiz, a disembodied doctor whose true identity was never revealed by Chico.  On Friday evening, April 2, when the medium's 100th birthday, opened in theaters in Brazil the film Chico Xavier, based on the autobiographical book The Lives of Chico Xavier, the journalist Marcel Souto Maior. Directed and produced by filmmaker Daniel Filho, Chico Xavier is portrayed in the film by actors Matheus Costa, Antonio

and Angelo Nelson Xavier, respectively, in three stages of his life from 1918 to 1922, from 1931 to 1959 and from 1969 to 1975.

All information about the film, the scenes of the filming, the cast and the technical side can be seen on the site http://www.chicoxavierofilme.com.br/site/.

A collection of ideas about, books and the life of
Francisco Cândido Xavier

Show in sequence, as a special gift for our readers, two tables of the utmost importance with regard to life, work and the thought of Chico Xavier.

The first contains statements and answers that Chico Xavier gave way to many issues, the second presents a range of information about the life and work of the late medium, including the ratio of 409 books by him through automatic writing.

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Testimonials and answers written by Chico Xavier

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General information about the life and work of Chico Xavier 

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