Maria Damião
Maria Marques Vieira was born in Belém do Pará,
in November 4th of 1910, and still very young moved with his family to Rio
Branco -- Acre, where she came to meet Mestre Raimundo Irineu Serra,
in the year of 1931.
Maria Damião, as she became known, was of a low stature, white and blonde. She married, had seven children (one adoptive), losing her husband just after. She delegated us a hinário of great beauty. It belongs to this hinário the origin of the word pátria (mother land) in the doctrine. Her hinário also describes the figure of a foreign Chief, a mysterious spiritual being about whose significance and origins very few in the Doctrine know about.
“She dedicated herself, aside from the doctrine, exclusively to the cultivation of the land. She planted, tended the fields and harvested her daily necessities to help in raising her children,” relates Ms. Percília Matos, with whom she had a strong friendship, but on April 2nd of 1942, with 32 years old, she suddenly came to die.
According to José Francisco das Neves Junior, the Adviser Zé das Neves, “Mestre Irineu had lots of students, much more than a thousand, but neither all made an effort to learn alike. It were many who took it seriously and I can cite one: Maria Damião was a pupil that worked some many years with Mestre. She died in 1949, but she learnt and she received a hinário and because of this she will be a person always reminded within the Doctrine”.
After her death the hinário “O Mensageiro” proceeded being affectionately cared by Percília Matos, the hinários’ general-manager.
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