Now, the Second Entry on Respect Friendship: Bestest DeviantArt Friends and their similarities with the Greatest Luso - Brazilians Ever. Today: OrionStorm (Numbuh 712):

2nd place: OrionStorm (numbuh 712) - There are no words for me to describe how amazing is her KND fanart, but I'll try to describe it anyway: Her KND fanart is absurdingly similar to the KND we watch on TV! She is also quite helpful and sweet with her friends, especially when they ask her for help! Never give up, jas, 'cause we'll be always there for you!

Greatest Luso - Brazilian Ever related to OrionStorm (Numbuh 712) - Dom Francisco de Aquino Correia, 2nd Metropolitan Archbishop of Cuiabá(Cuiabá, Mato Grosso State, April 2, 1885 - São Paulo, São Paulo State, March 22, 1956):

When the boots of the BANDEIRANTES(Gold Searchers), on a distant 1719, here set foot, they couldn't suppose to find a more precious gold, and the more precious one, than the one of the mines of the Sutil (Named for the 'Bandeirante' Miguel Sutil). They received us with the gold in live human skin of the ones that would be born on that soil, and the fortunate ones from another lands, ofuscated by the bright of that land.

For how much he loved Mato Grosso, ans to his ones, I herewith raise the majestatic figure of DOM FRANCISCO DE AQUINO CORRÊA, Second Archbishop of Cuiabá, with whose life and profile, I relate our friend and KND Fan OrionStorm, AKA Numbuh 712.

"Greatly Simple, Simply Great"

With these words, translated from a Speech given from the Famous Dr. Luís-Philippe Pereira Leite, I here start to sketch the lines that sincerely and undoubtedly iluminated the figure of a real Mato Grosso - Born man.

I'm not being exaggerated in affirm: for 70 years before turning out the lights of the 3rd millenium, no person on the written history by men and women of that faraway lands, he can not be compared. Howewer, it's true he, with his name, praised and dignified the name of Mato Grosso, Breaking its frontiers. The Mato Grosso state hymn echoes: EIS AQUI, SEMPRE EM FLOR, MATO GROSSO,/ NOSSO BERÇO GLORIOSO E GENTIL!/ EIS A TERRA DAS MINAS FAISCANTES,/ ELDORADO COMO OUTRO NÃO HÁ. ("Here it is, always flowering, Mato Grosso,/ Our Glorious and kind cradle!/ Here is the land of the brightest mines/ Another eldorado like that there is not."). In equal mode, he chanted like no one the beauties of his hometown, Cuiabá, by him with loving care called "The gifted flower of the Hinterlands."

Land of indians, stop for horses. that was how was Mato Grosso was known before god, looking gleefully with a fatherly look this region of Brazil, Gave us a toast with the birth of a little boy, meant to sublime works, how much they were. His name, there's not who ignores it. At the request given to us, he is born, DOM FRANCISCO DE AQUINO CORREIA, Greatly Simple, Simply Great.

It was at April 2, 1885. A farm on the banks of the pleasant and fish-filled Cuiabá River was greeting the arrival of little Francisco. His dad was a businessman, Dom Antônio tomás de Aquino corrêa. At his comercial house, he met Maria D' Aleluia Gaudie Ley, the granddaughter of a Former Governor of Mato Grosso, André Gaudie Ley, whom he married. The maternal Caresses Francisco had them for just short-lived five years. His mom died on May 7, 1890, her ausence touching him deeply much, once he was the youngest of four children. His two Sisters, Eulália & Regina, also devoted themselves to religious life. Manuel, the other brother, followed the militar career, reaching the post of general.

Dom Antônio Tomás, his dad, transferred himself to the RUA NOVA(New Street), which now carries his son's name: AVENIDA DOM AQUINO CORREIA (Dom Aquino Corrêa Avenue). On the Grounds of the COLÉGIO SÃO GONÇALO (São gonçalo college), he found on the Salesians his best friends, mainly his blood brothers, Helvêcio & Emanuel, which later followed Francisco's path, both becoming bishops and archbishops, a triad of greatness on the brazilian church.

A model student, Chiquinho, as he was affectionately called, was shown as a idol. To the LICEU SALESIANO (Salesian Lycaeum), were unavailiable the last years of the junior high school. His only way was the following one: without resources to study at Rio de Janeiro, h should make it by himself. He prepared by himself for the so-called EXAMES DE MADUREZA (Maturity Exams). by two years straight, from 15 to 17, on the ambient of his home, he dedicated himself, heart and soul, to the study of Greek, Latin and Vernacular. His Exam, a Uncontestable Success: An A+ (10) with distinction. Only Representative of the state to take those so feared exams, the Cuiabá of that time, 1902, is proud of the CHIQUINHO DA RUA NOVA, according to the news of the papers.

Convicted of his intentions, he decided to give goodbye to the world's enchantments, following the steps of Saint John Bosco. On the words of his paricular secretary, Father Pedro Cometti, Neither the adults, nor the young ladies who disputed and praised him, could dream of seeing him as a priest.

On his fulgurant 17 years of age, he goes to the doors of the NOVICIADO SALESIANO (Salesian Noviciate). When he was 19, he went to rome. It was five years of study at the reputed Gregorian University of Rome. He got a Doctor's Degree in Philosophy and Theology, in a show of pure brillantism: his Grade: MAGNA CUM LAUDE, equivalent to our A+ with Appraisal (10 with Appraisal).

A pupil of him, Ivan Arraes, his ex-student, told his friend, the Desembargardor Paulo da Cunha the following: The enchantment of the teachers of the Gregorian University with Francisco, a singular, always catching inteligence, was so big that on of his teachers said, joking: Mato grosso is decribed as a land of horses. If it's true,, they must send to us youngsters like francisco, and we'll receive them with open arms.

He was ordained priest on the iminence of his 24 years, at January 17, 1909. The news of his return heated up the Mato Grosso Society, Far away, after so much time abroad, the people of Cuiabá still followed his path, cheering out his triumph. With honors and pageantry, it is how they received him. Teaching at the LICEU SÃO GONÇALO (São Gonçalo Lycaeum), two years later, he become director. At May 12, 1912, he lauched the fundamental stone to the construction of the Shrine of Nossa Senhora Auxiliadora, the Virgin of the Salesians

Another two years later, a birthday gift, on April 2, 1914, he receives the news of his elevation to the episcopate: he would be the First Salesian Brazilian Bishop. Now we transport ourselves to the Cuiabá of that epoch. Let's try to imagine the tsunami of sympathy and enthusiasm that invades not only the capital, nor Mato Grosso, but the entire Brazil: Father Aquino was just 29 years old, and now Bishop, he was the youngest one in the world! a real honor!

On the Feast day of the Good Lord Jesus of Cuiabá, January 1st, 1915, the all happy population hugged him like a dear son. That was the start of 41 years of a long and fertile episcopate, between smiles and tears. When informed of his Episcopal Consecration, his religious sisters wrote him: "that cheers us more than seeing your head wearing a royal crown."

On the second year of the Bishopric, Mato Grosso was dangerously involved on its greatest political crisis, on the words of the bishop, the demon of the political passions, furious, tore apart in two pieces the heart of our people. On the Feast of the Patron Saint of Cuiabá, Dom Aquino eletrizes everyone with a historic Sermon, pleading the peace, the forgiveness, with his entire heart, too anguished becaush of his beloved people. Everyone understand that only him had autrhority to reunite the Mato Grosso Family. Dom Carlos Luís D'Amour, Archbishop, posted himself against that iniciative. And now the words of the Holy See: Given the Unrest on the state, recommends that D. aquino should accept that mission. He, that was ordained Bishop at Age 29, he was about to become the governor of his Home State at age 32. His role, conciliate the irreconciliable. on January 11, 1917, he is proclamed Governor of Mato Grosso.

Many water had to pass under the bridge. The two first years, a time of peace. after that, the Mantle of Forgiveness wasn't enough to have the two parties, again fighting.But it's relevant to Remember that Dom Aquino at that time, protagonized borderland questions with Goiás State, defending the rights of his state. He then creates the CENTRO MATOGROSSENSE DE LETRAS (Mato Grosso Center of Literature), later in 1932 called the ACADEMIA MATOGROSSENSE DE LETRAS (Mato Grosso Academy of Literature).

About his goverment, let's have words from the Marechal Cândido rondon: State governor, Dom Aquino revealed himself a correct administrator, a secure entrepreneur and clarivident patriot. No one better than him to handle that task.

A year before his retirement from the Government, Archbishop Dom Carlos dies. To him Dom Aquino tributs the best proofs of veneration and respect.

Whitened hair by the passage of that four years, Dom Aquino with a small Bishopric, that not Cuiabá. That's not the thoughts of the holy see: He is nominated Archbishop of the Mato Grosso People. Another dificulties, lesser - intensified, were waiting for him. As a gift, he inherited a Bishopric with only two priests.

Tired by the newly-ended state government, Accepting the invitation of Dom Sebastião Leme, Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro, he goes to the then Capital of the Country, decided to participate of the CONGRESSO EUCARÍSTICO DA INDEPENDÊNCIA(Independence Eucharistic Congress), not without claiming a deserved rest. There, the divine providence reserved him another mission. to the unknown Archbishop of Cuiabá, between several other important prelates from larger centers who attended the Congress, was reserved the pronunciation of the initial prayer of the congress, magnetizing the inmense auditorium. that was just the begining.

Back to Cuiabá, he retakes the construction of the Gothic Shrine of Nossa Senhora do bom Despacho, started in september of 1918, with resources from lectures, commemorative speechs from great events and how he reffered with care to his books, terminating it in 1924: "A document of faith and generosity of the people of Cuiabá", on Dom Aquino's words.

Dom Leme was his Shield - Bearer. He Estimulated Dom Aquino to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Bishopric of Cuiabá at the very Rio de Janeiro, surronded by Marechal rondon and Antônio Azeredo, Senator for Mato Grosso. Dom Aquino's star would glow with a larger fulgor. He received the invitation of the INSTITUTO HISTORICO E GEOGRÁFICO BRASILEIRO (Brazilian Historic and Geographic Institute). Launched on the world of the national intelectuality, his name didn't know any horizons. where he was, his prescence was grant of success. After his inauguration speech, the newspapers said: " We don't know on the clergy of our homeland who excels Dom aquino on the art of saying of not only saying with words, but with the soul.

Other comenorations would appear by the way. the blessing of the Rio de Janeiro Jockey Club, as it was incredibly loving, projected him on the for corners of the country. We imagine if he hadn't given majesty to the ball! The sympathetic Archbishop, tall'n thin, defensor of the fluent speeches, decides, estimulated by Dom Leme, to launch his name to the victorious campaign to the ACADEMIA BRSILEIRA DE LETRAS (Brazilian Academy of Literature). Between his adversaries, there was even the famous jurist Pontes de Miranda. At the end, he had just a single concurrent, Lindolfo Collor, when the President of the Academy was the repected Coelho Neto.

Elected, he appears on the 1st page of the Newspaper O GLOBO: The Academy, receiving Dom Aquino Correia on its annals, receives a spirit that only can honor and prestigiate it. It should be congratulated, not Dom Aquino.

Once more, we transport ourselves, 80 years ago, to the pleasant Mato Grosso People. A feeling of spreaded pride. Anyway, he was the first person born on the faraway and forgotten Mato Grosso elected to the Academy of the Imortals, on november 30, 1927.

A mix of elegance and serenity marked his inauguration speech: "I came from so far, from the Sun - brighted and flowered hinterlands. I believe on the Literature of the reason and faith, of the hope and love..."

Not everything were flowers, because his Critical, Agripino Grieco, Shot critics over critics: "That Catholicism is really interesting: There was a Saint Francis, that preached to birds, a Saint Anthony that preached to fishes, and now comes a Dom aquino to Preach to the Jockey Club horses.

By another time, he continues to criticize him, trying to dethrone the prestige of the archbishop: "For the academy giving shelter to 40 associates, I say Dom Aquino was the zero of the forty." and Dom Aquino Says: "What would be of the forty without the zero?"

Now, passed just 52 years of his death, we can't imagine, given the extension of the Archdiocese, the dificulty of attending its disperse population,in its majority, on the banks of the rivers, or on the endless hinterlands. on the banks of the horses, if not in boats, both on the Pantanal and the woods, his visit and his words iluminated the rivers and the remote places of that state, born a giant, starting by the name.

Only the Prelacy of Chapada had the enormous area of 140,000 sq.km., something around a seventh of the current extension of Mato Grosso. Too much far, so faraway it was, that the papal bull creating it never arrived. One year later, in 1941, a copy arrives.

On the start of Dom Aquino as Governor, the trip from Rio to Cuiabá lasted 2 weeks. First by train, until Porto Esperança, and then by boat, crossing the Paraguai, São Lourenço and Cuiabá Rivers.

At that turbulent period, News come From Rio about the devastating GRIPE ESPANHOLA (Spanish Cold). so elevated the number of deaths that in certain days, there weren't people to bury the bodies of the victims, that on Rio de Janeiro, and if it on its peak reached the distant and poor Cuiabá, there wouldn't be left no one to tell. Fortunately, that capital had an expressive number of doctors: five, and just that.

Dom Aquino was the Official Speaker of the Brazilian Goverment, so much was his prestige with Getúlio Vargas and his acception on the high spheres, that the Apostolic Nunciature thought of transferring him to the newly-created Bishopric of Petróolis, because it would be easy to mantain close to the power and to the indispensable contacts, in the church's behalf. He, howewer, refused the invitation, and said more: "Depending on me, I'd rather stay in Cuiabá." If obviously on that, his works wouldn't be stopped of being realized."

At August 7, 1941, Cuiabá blows itself in smiles to receive Getúlio Vargas, in the first time that Mato Grosso State was about to be visited by a President. Here's curious to know, the President Getúlio was elected to occupy a seat on the Brazilian Academy of Literature, becoming a fellow of the Archbishop of Cuiabá, which receives him.

It's good to remember: the Friendship between Dom Aquino and the President much contributed to the construction of the Palace of the Archbishops, at the cost of the Presidency and the National Institute of the Book, his books were reprinted and distributed to schools on the country. "The Palace of the Ivory Tower" as how it was called by Dom Aquino, in homage to Our Lady, was then erected with sheets of paper.

Born and raised in Cuiabá, there wasn't no one who estimated and praised Dom Aquino as a beloved and precious Patrimony of Mato Grosso.

The Silver Jubilee of his Archbishopric, in 1947, was a singular manifestation of the people. With the sceptre of the forgiveness, he estimulated his devouts to make the same as him.

Then, from that point, his health started to wane. Disciplined and ascetic, he invariably woke up at 3:30 in the morning. before lessening, the pain was raising up. on a plane of the government, he was taken to Rio de Janeiro to be submitted to exams and an operation. The old Marechal Rondon, then 84 years old and almost blind, was a frequent visit to him. Reestablished, he comes back to Cuiabá.

In 1952, a double comemoration: he celebrates the Golden Jubilee of his Salesian Religious life, and with enthusiasm, not diverse, the Silver Jubilee of his election to the Brazilian Academy of Literature.

In 1954, the city of São Paulo raises the flags of its 4th centenary. The INSTITUTO HISTÓRICO E GEOGRÁFICO PAULISTA(São Paulo Historical and Geographical Institute) receives the Archbishop of Cuiabá as a member. The piece of oratory, result of an extensive research, on a 11 - chapter Volume. It was about the first bishop of Cuiabá, Dom José Antônio dos Reis, a São Paulo native by birth, first student of the FACULDADE DE DIREITO DE SÃO PAULO (Law college of São Paulo).

Full of merits, curved by the weight of his age, he slowly is going to end his journey. The Motto of his Episcopate, and his identity were: SANTIFICA IN VERITATE, Which means: SANCTIFY BY TRUTH.

Full of probations, especially physical ones, his last years of life were like that, curved always on the problems that burdened his state, a Cardiac Arritmy and Generalized Weakness were his companions, wherever he was.

It was on March 22, 1956, which Dom Aquino died, after a Surgery in São Paulo, his kidneys weren't working very well. He, which was born on a Maundy Thursday, the day before Christ's martyrydom, at night. After having received the Bless of the Agonizants, now by the third time, kisses the crucifix before his last breath of life.

In all national Territory comes out the news of his death, orphaning his homeland and the whole State of Mato Grosso. The plane which brings back his mortal remains, ceded by the governor of São Paulo, the Mato Grosso - Born Jânio Quadros, is the first to land on the still uninaugurated Airport, today named Marechal Rondon.

A sea of people follows Dom Aquino to the Church of São Gonçalo. A rain of thankfulness and affect. Then it went to the Cathedral to the last goodbye. The mourning procession was at the afternoon of march 24. More than all speechs, it was amazing the pain shown on the faces and the tears who fell down from them. His heart didn't pulse anymore, the heart of the one who was the youngest Bishop on the world, now was the oldest on Brazil, the Dean of the Archbishops. Since Always, the owner of a beautiful appearance, walking indiferently to the things of the earth, searching only for the heavenly ones.

Whatever saw him, both on the Saloons of the Academy or the great counters, would think of Dom Aquino as an Aristocrat. And know that his bedroom kept hidden a simplicity never seen: A canvas bed, without matresses, a wardrobe, given to him by the Salesians, where he put his religious habits, a big table with a closet for books, given to him by his dad, and a rough rocking chair, without even piped water. his bathing water was brought on a kerosene can! Extreme comfort! The wow of poverty, he lived on fullness.

That biography of his. Dom Francisco de Aquino Correia will be the name that history, without asking to be allowed, will be in charge of transporting to the incoming generations. his dad, whenever he visited him, rain or sun, on thursday mornings, put himself down on one knee before his Archbishop son, kissing his ring.

On closing the writing of this entry, I'm sure of the moral and intelectual estature of Dom Aquino, havin written with his life, the most beautiful page of the Hitory of Mato Grosso State.

Regular men are usually measured by their acts. Another, however, is the table of values to measure God's men. We Measure the God's men by the good acts he does, and we make that with the rule of the gospel. For being a God's man, the Archbishop of Cuiabá most estimated, always beloved.

His Name, Dom Francisco de Aquino Correia, could never be forgotten, by the sum of his goodness he spilled here and there, notably in his state, especially by force of natural, instinct, his Gifted Flower of the Hinterlands, Cuiabá.

Dom Aquino's Profile surely matches our friend OrionStorm's Profile, because as Dom Aquino was a friend of his people and valued his wows of chastity and poverty, Our friend Orionstorm Cares for her friends, never leaving them alone, which makes her an awesome person. Like Dom Aquino was an awesome person, OrionStorm also is, and she will always be! You're the best, Jasmien!

And what's my Grade for you, Jas? Obviously, the same grade given to Dom Aquino: MAGNA CUM LAUDE!
10 with Appraisal! you're the best, girl!

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