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Sebastião Mota de Melo
Spirituality & Myth
Culture & IdentityWho is Sebastião Mota de Melo in the Agency editorial?
Sebastião Mota de Melo, known as Padrinho Sebastião, was a Brazilian religious leader of the Santo Daime. Research.2, an edition about ayahuasca published only in Portuguese, names him in one paragraph and one photograph caption: after the death of Mestre Irineu in 1971 he carried the teachings forward and founded the centre known as CEFLURIS.
In short
Sebastião Mota de Melo, known as Padrinho Sebastião, was a Brazilian religious leader of the Santo Daime. In the Agency editorial he appears only in Research.2, the edition about ayahuasca, which exists only in Portuguese. The edition says that after the death of Mestre Irineu in 1971 he received the revelation of carrying the teachings of Mestre Irineu forward and founded the Centro Eclético de Fluente Luz Universal Raimundo Irineu Serra (CEFLURIS) in Vila Céu do Mapiá, in the state of Amazonas. According to the edition, it became the most important centre of the Daime and took the doctrine across Brazil and abroad. A photograph shows him at Rio do Ouro, Amazonas, in 1982.
Key facts
- Who was Sebastião Mota de Melo?
- A Brazilian religious leader of the Santo Daime, known as Padrinho Sebastião, who founded the centre called CEFLURIS in Céu do Mapiá, Amazonas.
- Where does the Agency editorial name Padrinho Sebastião?
- Only in Research.2, published only in Portuguese: in one paragraph of the author's text about the Santo Daime and in the caption of a photograph.
- What does Research.2 say about him?
- That after the death of Mestre Irineu in 1971 he received the revelation of carrying the teachings forward and founded CEFLURIS, which the edition calls the most important centre of the Daime.
Who was Sebastião Mota de Melo?
Sebastião Mota de Melo, known as Padrinho Sebastião, was a Brazilian religious leader of the Santo Daime who lived from 1920 to 1990. He founded the community of Céu do Mapiá, in the state of Amazonas. The years of his life and his nationality come from outside the edition and are marked for verification.
How does Padrinho Sebastião appear in Research.2?
Research.2 names him at the end of its account of the Santo Daime, in the author's text. It says that, after the death of Mestre Irineu in 1971, Sebastião Mota de Melo, known as Padrinho Sebastião, received the revelation of carrying the teachings of Mestre Irineu forward and founded the Centro Eclético de Fluente Luz Universal Raimundo Irineu Serra (CEFLURIS) in Vila Céu do Mapiá, in the state of Amazonas. The edition says that this became the most important centre of the Daime and that it broke regional and national barriers, taking the doctrine, its principles and its values across Brazil and abroad.
Just before that paragraph the edition shows a photograph with the caption that names him at Rio do Ouro, Amazonas, in 1982, with the Centro de Documentação e Memória of ICEFLU as its source. The edition says nothing else about his life.
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