Brazil’s Patroness, Nossa Senhora do Aparecida (Our Lady of Aparecida), has become a talking point in the nation’s 2026 presidential campaign in recent days after a fake news campaign claimed that conservative Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, an Evangelical Christian, planned to formally eliminate the Catholic patron saint title.
\n\nFor nearly 100 years, Our Lady of Aparecida, a title of the Blessed Virgin Mary, has been the patron saint of Brazil since the late Pope St. Pius X officially declared it so in 1930. Her history spans over 300 years of faith and veneration in Brazil — an overwhelmingly Christian country where over 56 percent of its over 213 million people identify as Catholic and nearly 27 percent identify as Evangelicals.
\n\nIn recent days, a campaign reportedly deployed across social and mainstream media accused Senator Bolsonaro — an Evangelical Christian — of allegedly seeking to strip Our Lady of Aparecida of Her title as patron saint of Brazil should he be elected president. According to CNN Brasil, the now-debunked campaign also utilized remarks made by Bolsonaro during an August event in which he promised his followers that he would decree that Brazil “belongs to our Lord Jesus Christ” should he win the…
Original source: https://www.breitbart.com/latin-america/
