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Brazil

Brazil is home to the newest Marian Province. Even though it was established as a Province in 1998, the Congregation has been working in Brazil since the early 1960s. The Marians began their missionary work in Brazil after responding to appeals from Pope John XXIII during the Second Vatican Council, who asked them to serve as missionaries in South American countries badly in need of priests. Five Marians opened a mission in northern Brazil in 1964. Another group arrived five years later and began working with the poor on the outskirts of Curitiba in the south.

Today, there are about 60 Marian priests, brothers and seminarians in Brazil. They serve in parishes and their associated missions (chapels), assisting Catholic lay movements, as well as tribes of Indians. In some parishes, they have developed programs working with the poorest of the poor. The Marians also operate a Divine Mercy apostolate which has its center at the Divine Mercy Shrine in Curitiba. They also spiritually assist groups of nuns. Since 1977, working with native vocations, the young Province has improved its formation program.

Also see: Divine Mercy Province, Missions, MIC Addresses

Contact
Very Rev. Jair Batista de Souza
Provincial Superior
Cx. P. 8968
80.611-970 Curitiba, PR, Brasil
Phone: (55-41) 3229-2865
Phone: (55-41) 3345-7746
Fax: (55-41) 3329-8757
E-mail: jairmic@marianos.org.br
www.marianos.org.br

Marians in Brazil
Priests: 30
Seminarians: 17
Novices: 5
Postulants: 10
Total: 62

Religious Houses and Residences
• Adrianapolis
• Barra Santa Salette
• Curitiba-Novo Mundo
• Curitiba-Santuario
• Curitiba-Sao Jorge
• Curitiba-Sao Rafael
• Manoel Ribas
• Turvo
• Rio de Janeiro
• Mongagua
• Mafra