| Thousands of people from around the world | | | | Joao is acclaimed to be the most powerful spiritual |
| diagnosed as terminal or incurable by modern | | | | medium of our time and the greatest healer since our |
| medicine travel thousands of miles each month, | | | | beloved Jesus the Christ. From curing cancer, AIDS, |
| enduring long international flights and exhausting bus | | | | tumors, heart conditions, addictions, helping the lame |
| rides to Abadiania. A small town in the mountains of | | | | to walk and the blind to see, Joao treats every form |
| central Brazil. They come to see miracle healer, Joao | | | | of illness imaginable. Many people report powerful |
| Teixeira de Faria, the man the people of Brazil have | | | | outcomes that can be measured; X-rays before and |
| affectionately titled, "Joao de Deus" or "John of God". | | | | after for example. The proof is a room at the Casa |
| Joao is a simple man of humble beginnings who | | | | filled with thousands of discarded crutches, leg braces |
| devotes three days of every week to healing his | | | | and wheelchairs. |
| fellow man without payment for his services. | | | | The two kinds of surgeries performed through Joao |
| As a young boy, Joao experienced black out spells. | | | | are visible and invisible. Visible surgeries are done with |
| On awakening he learned he had performed | | | | forceps, a scapel or knife. Patients experience minimal |
| miraculous healings. Religious leaders, the medical field, | | | | pain, bleeding or anxiety during surgery. There are no |
| the police and those in power threatened by Joaos | | | | tranquilizers, pain medication or antibiotics used |
| abilities had him beaten, thrown in jail then cast out | | | | before, during or after surgery, and no case of |
| of town. This was a pattern that went on for years. | | | | infection has ever occurred throughout Joao's many |
| Even with that, Joao still treated those who | | | | years of work. Invisible surgery is performed while |
| persecuted him when their own incurable illness arose. | | | | meditating in what is known as the Current room at |
| Joao frequently states, "it is not me who cures, God | | | | the Casa. Healing Spirits energetically bring about |
| is the healer, I am simply the vessel". Joao is known | | | | miraculous corrections on mental, emotional, physical |
| as an unconscious medium; he never recalls any of | | | | and spiritual levels. Healing can be immediate, others |
| the healings he's performed. | | | | recover over time, and some may require additional |
| Not everything can be explained scientifically or | | | | visits. |
| rationally as there are over 35 Healing Spirit Guides | | | | Thousands of written testimonies and personal |
| including King Solomon and Saint Ignatius that use | | | | letters of gratitude fill the Casa office along with |
| Joao as their instrument, completely taking over his | | | | stacks of newspaper articles. Reports from |
| body and mind. Guided by these Spirits, Joao was | | | | clergymen, scientists and doctors worldwide support |
| told to buy a specific piece of land in Abadiania and | | | | claims of Joao's work. |
| build a healing sanctuary on it. Joao named it the Casa | | | | "I've seen some things happen here at the Casa |
| de Dom Inacio, after his Patron and Master Guide, | | | | which are not only unexplainable in terms Western |
| Saint Ignatius. | | | | Medicine might use, but unbelievable!" -Stephen York, |
| Since he began 44 years ago, Joao has treated and | | | | M.D. |
| healed millions of people. While incorporated by the | | | | Joao de Deus and his Casa de Dom Inacio Healing |
| Healing Spirits, Joao will see all who come to him | | | | Sanctuary give us the opportunity to witness and |
| without stopping to rest. The poor and the famous | | | | experience God's love and deepen our connection |
| alike stand in line, up to thousands a day. They come | | | | with him. A place where our hope turns into faith, |
| to witness miracles and hope to receive one of their | | | | and faith into certainty. For the thousands who travel |
| own. For example actress Shirley Maclaine who was | | | | to Joao each month from around the world, it is a |
| told by Western Medicine she would never dance | | | | spiritual awakening, a spiritual transformation, and the |
| again. That was until Joao removed a tumor from her | | | | beginning of the end to their illness, on many levels. |
| stomach. | | | | |