Eustáquio van Lieshout
Dutch priest and pastor in Brazil
Feast: 30 August (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Humbertus van Lieshout was born and baptised at Aarle-Rixtel in the Netherlands on 3 November 1890, the eighth of eleven children of a deeply Catholic farming family.
A priest of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, as Father Eustáquio he was a father of the poor, a nurse to the sick, a shepherd of souls and a model parish priest.
The miracles
The Dicastery's biography does not describe the miracles approved in the cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
A missionary priest remembered as father of the poor and nurse of the sick.
The cause
Eustáquio van Lieshout has been beatified; the cause continues. Favours received, and offers of help, go to the postulation, the office that carries the cause forward: Vice-postulation for the cause of Blessed Eustaquio van Lieshout.
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - biography: Eustáquio van Lieshout
- Wikidata Q734546 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Eustáquio van Lieshout (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 21 September 2026. Corrections welcome.