Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro in a chapel reciting the Consecration to the Blessed Mother in front of a priest.

Bolsonaro wrote that he recited the consecration prayer on October 24, the feast of St. Raphael in the Catholic calendar.

“I share with the Catholic priests of Brazil that today, in the Chapel of the Alvorada Palace, I made the following consecration prayer,” he stated.

The prayer, provided by Bolsonaro, makes reference to a devoutly Catholic former princess regent of Brazil, called “Isabel the Redemptress” because she abolished slavery in the country. It reads:

Queen of Heaven and Earth, as the Head of the Brazilian Nation, I renew that request that the Redeemer Princess Isabel once made to you: may you be the Supreme Ruler of this country, if Brazil is yours, and BY THIS ACT I COMMAND IT, it will be a nation whose God is the Lord, because you are entirely of God.

In the picture provided by the president, he was standing by the chapel’s altar and was accompanied by a priest kneeling in front of the altar. Five other individuals are pictured as witnesses to the consecration prayer.

Bolsonaro added that he invited priests to use the prayer also. “I forward this message, with much humility, to those priests who in their Holy Masses, public or private, should they so desire, present to God this humble and trusting consecration to the Mother of Our Lord Jesus Christ.”

This is not the first time that 67-year-old Bolsonaro has participated in such an act of devotion, consecrating the nation of Brazil to Mary.

In 2019, he took part in a ceremony at the presidential palace, which was the result of national deputy Eros Biondini and Brazil’s Catholic Parliamentary Front asking for divine protection. It was performed also in reparation for sin.

The 2019 consecration involved, among other aspects, praying the rosary and singing Marian Hymns. Following the ceremony a proclamation of national consecration was signed by President Bolsonaro, cabinet ministers Floriano Peixoto, and Biondini. The other signatories included Bishop Areas and Bishop emeritus João Evangelista Martins Terra of Brasilia.

One year later, Rio de Janeiro’s archbishop, Cardinal Orani João Tempesta, followed suit, and consecrated the country to the Immaculate Heart of Mary on May 13.

President Jair Bolsonaro Consecrates Brazil to the Blessed Mother

Bolsonaro wrote that he recited the consecration prayer on October 24, the feast of St. Raphael in the Catholic calendar.

“I share with the Catholic priests of Brazil that today, in the Chapel of the Alvorada Palace, I made the following consecration prayer,” he stated.

The prayer, provided by Bolsonaro, makes reference to a devoutly Catholic former princess regent of Brazil, called “Isabel the Redemptress” because she abolished slavery in the country. It reads:

In the picture provided by the president, he was standing by the chapel’s altar and was accompanied by a priest kneeling in front of the altar. Five other individuals are pictured as witnesses to the consecration prayer.

Bolsonaro added that he invited priests to use the prayer also. “I forward this message, with much humility, to those priests who in their Holy Masses, public or private, should they so desire, present to God this humble and trusting consecration to the Mother of Our Lord Jesus Christ.”

This is not the first time that 67-year-old Bolsonaro has participated in such an act of devotion, consecrating the nation of Brazil to Mary.

In 2019, he took part in a ceremony at the presidential palace, which was the result of national deputy Eros Biondini and Brazil’s Catholic Parliamentary Front asking for divine protection. It was performed also in reparation for sin.

One year later, Rio de Janeiro’s archbishop, Cardinal Orani João Tempesta, followed suit, and consecrated the country to the Immaculate Heart of Mary on May 13.