Stories of Paraná - The prophet of Antonina

Stories of Paraná - The prophet of Antonina

The prophet of Antonina
Valêncio Xavier

From the Monk of Lapa, which many believe is still alive, the Paraná is fertile ground for monks, prophets,
healers and healers.
Antonina, the tomb of the Prophet Coast today is cause for pilgrimage.
Just leave a bottle of water on top of the tomb, the water begins to boil, say, becomes a holy medicine
for any evil.
Aguinaldo Vieira da Silva was born in Penedo, Alagoas, in 1914. Poor family, was paralyzed.
When he was about twelve years old, the boy embarks Aguinaldo ride on a ship and is left in Paranaguá.
Begs and shines shoes with great difficulty, as it can only move one hand.
At seventeen, Aguinaldo lives of favor with an old lady, also crippled.
Younger beautiful, long silky hair, face girl, Aguinaldo is one more of the many miseravinhos to vegetate in Paranaguá.
One night, returning to soñado hut where you live, see, or feel, the presence of an old man with long white beards.
Despite the old tattered clothes, Aguinaldo asks for a handout:
I can give alms yes, but I can heal and give you the power of healing.
What do you prefer? Aguinaldo not accept alms.
That old man would say, a miracle worker who appears from time immemorial in Paranaguá.
Upset, Aguinaldo falls into a deep sleep.
Wake up in the morning in his shack, completely healed.
Ali even performs his first miracle cures crippled old lady who gave him shelter.
Parnanguaras doctors are not very satisfied with the new competitor.
They urchins that were paid to throw rocks in the shack by Aguinaldo and he ends up being arrested for illegal practice
of medicine. The woman delegate suffered from migraines, those that do not heal ever.
With a simple glass of water blessed, Aguinaldo cure it forever and is released from prison.
Despite the fame, things never go well for Aguinaldo in Paranagua, much persecution.
Brought to Antonina to cure an alcoholic family Cabral, just down roots in Coast, as a family member.
Is a close friend of Reginald Cabral, his age, to be his companion until the end of life.
People come from everywhere to seek the advice of healing and Monk Faisqueira:
"I was a little girl, was drowned with a chicken bone in his throat, he could not breathe.
My mother took me to the Monk Aguinaldo, he gave me flour mixed with water and jumped off the bone.
I owe my life to it, "says Mrs. Rosie, owner of the traditional restaurant that bears his name Antonina.
In June 1933, Aguinaldo dies.
With so many people who came out, it was the largest funeral seen in Antonina.
At the cemetery gate, take a photo that shows the dead with narrowed eyes.
Affirm that opened at the time of the photo, to bless those who had come to the funeral.
The photo will generate the belief that he did not die actually.
Years later the rumor that he was "holy body", Brazilian superstition that the body of the holy people is preserved intact after death body dry.
Ask the exhumation, hundreds of people came to see the miracle.
Opens the coffin, the body is decomposed, but the faith of Aguinaldo dies.
Even today, one can see people praying in his grave blue color of the sea, asking for help.

Valêncio Xavier, writer and historian


Source: Stories of Paraná, Brasil.