João Pereira

Dates: died 1954
In the doctrine: Author of one of the five base hinários
Hinário: 1
Hymns: 44
Lineage: DAIME ☨ FINADOS

One of the four companions who received hymns after Mestre Irineu asked that they be given the same grace. His hinário is Seis de Janeiro, sung at Finados, and its guardianship passed to Saturnino Brito do Nascimento.

Mestre Irineu called him, as he called Germano, General do Conforto.

The hinário

Seis de Janeiro44 hymns · 1,575 lines · DAIME ☨ FINADOS

A verse in their name

Printed inside the document, ahead of the hymns, under a heading that names them. It carries no hymn heading of its own in the source.

The Life of João Pereira, the "General of Comfort"

from Seis de Janeiro

When God came to the world

To heal and save

To teach the Holy Doctrine

To those who seek it

Oh! Sovereign Virgin

Oh! Powerful Virgin

Give us Thy splendors

May Thou cover us with roses

I want Mommy to teach me

To love this child

As you presented Him to me

So gallant and so delicate

I called Maraximbé

For Him to come here

Bend over to be whipped

And stand firm

Pictures

One picture from the collection. Click to enlarge.

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