Anthony Vilela the Younger
martyr in Brazil
Feast: 3 October (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
On the bank of the river Uruaçu near Natal in Brazil, Blessed Ambrose Francis Ferro, priest, and companions, martyrs, victims of the repression carried out against the Catholic faith.
Among those named is Blessed Anthony Vilela the Younger, listed together with his daughter.
The miracles
As a martyr he was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 3 October among the martyrs killed by the river Uruaçu near Natal in Brazil in the repression carried out against the Catholic faith.
The cause
The cause continues. No postulation address is published here yet. Favours received through this person’s intercession, and offers of help, are best sent to the religious order or congregation they belonged to, or to the diocese where the cause was opened; either will pass them to the postulation.
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.