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Father Cícero was born in 1844 in Crato, at the time the largest city in the Cariri Valley in the province (later state) of Ceará. While Ceará’s interior (commonly known as the sertão or backlands) was semi-arid and subject to devastating cyclical droughts, the Cariri received more ample rains, and was known as the ‘bread basket’ of Ceará.1 Though he initially suspended his studies when his father died in 1862, three years later, assisted by his godfather, a well-known Crato potentate, he entered the seminary in Fortaleza, the provincial capital. Ordained on 30 November 1870, on 11 April 1872 he took up residence in Juazeiro, at the time an insignificant settlement with a dozen or so modest houses and a small chapel. He developed a reputation for being an attentive priest who truly cared for the poor, and for having a mystical bent.
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Greenfield, G. (2015). Remembering Father Cícero: Local, Regional and National Memory in North-eastern Brazil. In: Beyen, M., Deseure, B. (eds) Local Memories in a Nationalizing and Globalizing World. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137469380_9
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