Museu Vivo do Padre Cícero - Juazeiro do Norte - CE

A place of great faith!!!

Blessing

The Padre Cícero Living Museum is closed due to the State decree.

Unfortunately, I still don't know Padre Cícero's Joazeiro do Norte and two brave Romeiros. I will definitely go one day! Tender hugs❤

Opened on November 1, 1999, in the old Casarão do Horto - currently one of the largest prayer centers in Brazil -, in Juazeiro do Norte / CE, the Padre Cícero Living Museum portrays and preserves, in life-size characters, the life and religious work of Father Cícero Romão Batista, who became an evangelizer and spiritual leader of the community. Popular religiosity is striking in the city. Millions of pilgrims go to Juazeiro to pray and to pay promises. Juazeiro do Norte was initially a district of the neighboring city of Crato, until young Father Cícero Romão Batista decided to establish himself as parish priest in the village. Because of the so-called “miracle of Juazeiro” (when Father Cícero gave the holy host to Blessed Maria de Araújo, the host turned into blood), the figure of the priest took on mystical characteristics and came to be worshiped by the people as a saint. Today the city is the second in the state and a reference in the Northeast thanks to the priest. In homage to him, the Living Museum of Padre Cícero houses, in five environments, replicas of the patriarch of the Northeasterners and people who were close to him, such as Maria de Araújo, José Marrocos, Floro Bartolomeu, Aureliano Pereira. In rooms and rooms, there is the presence of images of the priest in moments of rest, prayer and conversation, with the butts, dispatching with José Marrocos in his office. To make the journey, in all its rooms, visitors go through the chapel, go through spaces such as the ex-votos room, rooms and prayer room, with a picture of the Heart of Jesus, acquired by Father Cícero in Rome, more 100 years. The largest number of characters is in the dining room. In this space we can also observe the exhibition of many objects, photographs, among others, arising from promises and graces reached by pilgrims, devotees of “Padim Ciço”, as it was called. The site preserves a photographic exhibition on historical facts, such as the 1914 sedition in Juazeirodo Norte, in addition to the priest's will, one of the most important and valuable in the city. The Museum contains much of the donated material, in addition to objects that belonged to Father Cícero, such as priestly garments and even dinnerware and silverware. It is located in front of the Capela do Socorro, where the remains of the “patriarch” of Juazeiro are buried. On the Horto hill, the highest point in Juazeiro, a 27-meter-tall statue of Padre Cícero was erected, the fourth largest in the world. It was sculpted by Armando Lacerda in 1969 and was inaugurated on November 1 of the same year by the then mayor José Mauro Castelo Branco Sampaio. Visit with Conhecendo Museums this space dedicated to the memory of one of the most important religious in the country.

Everything so perfect, so real, so much history inside this sacred place❤️??

I loved this beautiful, harmonious place, it contains a wonderful energy that gives us peace and gratitude.

A place of prayer, thanksgiving where we can see a little of the history of Padim Ciço. I was delighted with the little pictures of animals in the ex-votes room thanking for thanks achieved. And my Joe paid the promise, deposited the cart/ex vote as a thank you ??