João Pozzobon

João Luiz Pozzobon (born December 12, 1904 in Ribeirão , † June 27, 1985 in Santa Maria ) was a Brazilian deacon and missionary and initiator of the campaign of the Pilgrim Mother of God of Schoenstatt .

Life

Born in Riberão Claro, Brazil, the son of Italian emigrants, he met the founder of the Schoenstatt Movement , Father Josef Kentenich , in Santa Maria in the late 1940s . In 1950 he began to visit Schoenstatt families, schools, hospitals and prisons with the image of grace. From the simple beginning a new kind of pastoral ministry developed, especially since he began in 1959 to let smaller pictures wander in circles of 10 to 30 families. The Campaign of the Pilgrim Mother takes up essential elements of the new understanding of the Church of the Second Vatican Council of the pilgrim church and its seeking pastoral care; it often reaches far removed from the church and leads to an observable increase in church engagement in the congregations. The Campaign of the Pilgrim Mother has spread outside of Brazil since 1983 and, 50 years after its foundation (2000), reached several million people in 110 countries around the world.

The diocese of Santa Maria opened the beatification process for Joao Luiz Pozzobon in 1994 . It was concluded positively at diocesan level in May 2009 and continued in Rome in June 2009.

literature

Juan José Riba: Allies, Córdoba 2004, ISBN 950-9579-49-1
Esteban Uriburu, João Luiz Pozzobon. Peregrino y misionero de María, Córdoba 1999, ISBN 956-7924-007 (Spanish)
João Luiz Pozzobon, initiator of the Pilgrim Mother Campaign. Santa Maria Consensus Document, 1989
Esteban Uriburu: The poor deacon João Luiz Pozzobon, Vallendar 1991, ISBN 978-3876201542

Web links

Joao L. Pozzobon

personal data
SURNAME	Pozzobon, João
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Pozzobon, João Luiz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Brazilian deacon and missionary and initiator of the Campaign of the Pilgrim Mother
DATE OF BIRTH	December 12, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ribeirão
DATE OF DEATH	June 27, 1985
Place of death	Santa Maria