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Avelar Brandão Vilela

Catholic cardinal.

Born June 13th, 1912 in Alagoas.

Died December 19th, 1986 at 74 years old in Salvador (stomach cancer).

Occupations
Catholic priest

It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but retire a little from sight and afterwards return again. Ralph Waldo Emerson