When Father João de Brito arrived in a community, he faced intense work: he received hundreds of people whose confessions he heard, to whom he gave advice or taught doctrine.

When Father João de Brito arrived in a community, he faced intense work: he received hundreds of people whose confessions he heard, to whom he gave advice or taught doctrine.
Fr João Brito’s mystical experience, paying more attention to the evangelical challenge than to the specificity of earthly life, made him bold and indifferent to the rich, but brought him closer to the populations.