Frei Caneca

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Joaquim do Amor Divino
Born	(1779-08-20)20 August 1779 Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
Died	13 January 1825(1825-01-13) (aged 45) Recife, Brazil

Frei Joaquim do Amor Divino Rabelo (20 August 1779 – 13 January 1825),^[1] born Joaquim da Silva Rabelo, commonly known as Frei Caneca (English: Friar Mug), was a Brazilian religious leader, politician, and journalist. He was involved in multiple revolts in Northeastern Brazil during the early 19th century.^[2] He acted as the main leader on the Pernambuco Revolt. As a journalist, he founded and edited Typhis Pernambucano, a weekly journal used on the Confederation of the Equator.

Evaldo Cabral de Mello described him as: "The man in the history of Brazil that embodied the quintessential nativist sentiment was curiously a Lusitanian 'jus sanguinis'."