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Blessed Eustáquio Van Lieshout
Blessed Eustáquio Van Lieshout

Blessed Eustáquio Van Lieshout

Also known as: Eustachius van Lieshout; Hubertus van Lieshout; Humberto van Lieshout

Blessed
Post-Congregation

Feast Day

August 30

Born

November 3, 1890

Died

August 30, 1943

Beatified

15 June 2006 by Pope Benedict XVI

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

Beatified
Beatified2006-06-15 by 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
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