Patronage
2 saints are venerated as patrons of Brazil, led by Anthony of Padua (feast day June 13).
1195 — 1231 · Feast day: June 13
A Portuguese Franciscan friar renowned for his scriptural mastery and preaching that drew crowds of thousands across Italy and France. Canonized less than a year after his death in 1231, he is invoked as patron of lost things and the poor. St. Francis himself authorized him to teach theology to the friars.
1499 AD — October 18, 1562 · Feast day: October 19
Peter of Alcántara was a sixteenth-century Spanish Franciscan who ate once every three days and slept upright for a few hours a night. His Treatise on Prayer and Meditation was declared by Pope Gregory XV to have been written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, and Teresa of Ávila praised it as a masterpiece of interior guidance.