Donizetti Tavares de Lima

Donizetti Tavares de Lima (3 January 1882 – 16 June 1961) was a Brazilian Catholic priest.

Tavares de Lima was ordained to the priesthood in 1908 and served as a parish priest in various churches across Brazil but was noted for his extensive work at the San Antonio church in Tambaú where he lived most of his life. He was famed for his reported miracles and other wonders that began around the 1920s and continued until his death. But this produced some consternation in the local bishop who, in 1955, ordered him to give one final blessing to the public and then to retreat to normal parish duties with no more talk of miracles or healings. He did so in obedience and continued to exercise his functions as a parish priest until his death. Pope Francis – on 6 April 2019 – signed a decree acknowledging this miracle which therefore enabled for him to be beatified in Tambaú on 23 November 2019.

The current postulator for this cause is Dr. Paolo Vilotta.