João de Deus at Casa de Dom Inácio

Record summary

João Teixeira de Faria, known as João de Deus, developed the Casa de Dom Inácio de Loyola healing center in Goiás during the later twentieth century. He claimed to work through spiritual entities and became associated with surgeries, cures, trance, and ritual healing that attracted Brazilian and international visitors. The lead is relevant to miracle research because it offers a long-running institutional setting with testimonies, medical controversies, and changing media portrayals. The exact practices and scale during 1970–1989 should be reconstructed from Brazilian reporting and ethnographic work.