The Carmelite Order is delighted to announce today, 8th December 2010, that the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI has nominated bishop of the Territorial Prelature of Itaituba, in Brazil, Fr. Wilmar Santin O.Carm., of the Commissariat of Paraná of the Upper German Province. Fr. Wilmar was born at Paranavaí in Brazil, on 21st October 1952. Following his profession in the Order on 2nd January 1973, he was ordained priest on 8th December 1979. Among his many responsibilities in the Order, from 1990 to 1995 he served as Commissary Provincial, from 1995 to 2001 as General Councillor and from 2005 to 2008 as Prior of the Centro Internazionale S. Alberto (CISA) in Rome. During these past few years he has worked in Parish in Manaus and has taught Church History at the "Instituto de Teologia, Pastoral e Ensino Superior da Amazônia".

To Fr. Wilmar we offer our warmest congratulations on behalf of the whole Carmelite Family.

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On 3rd December last, in the course of a reception given by the Portuguese Embassy to the Holy See, to which various Portuguese clergy present in Rome, the ambassadors of the Portuguese speaking nations, Spain, and Poland, as well as some Carmelites attended, the Postulator General, Fr. Giovanni Grosso, O. Carm., received from the hands of the Portuguese Ambassador to the Holy See, S. E. Manuel Fernandes Pereira, the honor of "Grão Oficial do Ordem do Infante Dom Henrique ("Grand Officer of the Order of Prince Henry"), which the President of the Portuguese Republic, S.E. Dr. Aníbal Cavaco Silva, wished to grant in recognition and gratitude for his work done on the occasion of the canonization of St. Nuno of St. Mary. Fr. Giovanni graciously recieved the honor, considering it a credit not so much to himself, but to the Order, and in particular to Fr. Felipe Mar ia Amenós Bonet, who worked at length on the cause together with the Vice-Postulator, Fr. Francisco Rodrigues.

(1360-1431) Nuno Alvares Pereira, founder of the house of Braganza, was born in Cernache do Bonjardim, Portugal, on 24th July 1360. As Constable of the Kingdom of Portugal, he was the general who led the successful war of independence against Spain. He became a national hero and his deeds were commemorated by L. Camoes in the Lustiadas. Following the death of his wife, he joined the Carmelites in 1423 in Lisbon, in the house which he himself had founded for the Carmelites. He asked to become a simple lay brother and took the name of Brother Nuno of Saint Mary. He died in the convent on Easter Sunday, 1st April 1431, having given throughout his life a witness of prayer, penitence, love of the poor and filial devotion to our Lady. His cult was approved in 1918.

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