Blessed Eustáquio Van Lieshout
Also known as: Eustachius van Lieshout; Hubertus van Lieshout; Humberto van Lieshout
Feast Day
30 August
Born
3 November 1890 at Aarle-Rixtel, North Brabant, Netherlands as Humberto van Lieshout
Died
30 August 1943 at Belo Horizonte, Brazil of typhoid fever; buried at the church of Santo Domingo, Belo Horizonte; re-interred at the church of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, Belo Horizonte in 1949
Beatified
15 June 2006 by Pope Benedict XVI; the recognition liturgy was celebrated in Belo Horizonte, Brazil by Monsignor Walmor de Oliveira de Azevedo, Metropolitan Archbishop of Belo Horizonte
Venerated
12 April 2003 by Pope John Paul II (decree of heroic virtues)
Biography
Blessed Eustáquio Van Lieshout, also known as Eustachius van Lieshout, Hubertus van Lieshout, and Humberto van Lieshout, was born on November 3, 1890, in Aarle-Rixtel, North Brabant, Netherlands. He was the eighth of eleven children in a deeply Catholic farm family and was baptized on the day he was born. Even as a child, Eustáquio showed a strong devotion to his faith and felt a calling to the priesthood.
Cause for Canonization
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