João de Deus’s ‘spiritual surgeries’

Record summary

At Abadiânia, accounts described visible or so-called spiritual surgeries performed by João de Deus, allegedly with the assistance of entities identified as deceased doctors or other spirits. The reports matter for comparing ritualized intermediary intervention with prayer-based healing and angelic assistance. Documentary leads include visitor narratives, Brazilian reporting, medical commentary and skeptical analysis. The central uncertainty is whether procedures produced effects beyond expectation, suggestion or conventional treatment; surgical descriptions also vary sharply between supporters, observers and later critics.