Eurípides Barsanulfo was born in the city of Sacramento (Minas Gerais) on 1 May 1880 and died there on 1 November 1918.

His parents were Hermógenes Ernesto de Araújo and D. Jerônima Pereira de Almeida, both poor in material goods at the beginning, but rich in Christian virtues, which filled their honourable home with joy and peace.

Barely able to express his noble feelings, he turned out to be an admirable boy for his precocious intelligence and his dedication to work and study.

His youth was not carefree, as is often the case with the fortunate. At a very young age, he had to face the hardships of home, promoting the means to help him.

He grew up and always lived with his parents, for whom he was a true support. Hard-working and docile, he attended classes at the Colégio Miranda, an educational establishment run by the able educator João Derwil de Miranda. Early in his life, he showed a great propensity to pursue a career in literature. As a student, he helped the teachers by teaching his classmates, and such was his fondness for teaching that he became the teacher of his own siblings.

Eager to know everything, Barsanulfo achieved a solid and exquisite education in just a few years. From school he moved to his father's commercial office, where he worked as an accountant.

In January 1902, together with his former teachers, Dr. João Gomes Vieira de Melo, Inácio Martins de Melo and his colleague José Martins Borges, with the support of others, he founded the Liceo Sacramento, a primary and secondary school, where he taught for five consecutive years, with rare brilliance, teaching all subjects when necessary.

Parallel to the foundation of the Lyceum, the ‘"Gazeta de Sacramento" was published, a weekly newspaper that appeared on Sundays and of which he was editor for two years. Barsanulfo made his debut as a journalist in this newspaper, writing articles on political economy, public law, educational methods, literature, philosophy, etc. He also collaborated fruitfully and brilliantly with other newspapers.

Thanks to her privileged intelligence and her own efforts, she came to possess such a culture that her biographers consider it truly astonishing. He had a deep and wide knowledge of medicine and law. She spoke of astronomy, philosophy, mathematics, physical and natural sciences and literature with the most extraordinary confidence, without having any higher education qualifications.

His hard work as a teacher, in the press and on the podium; the goodness of his heart, always ready to help those in need; his kind words of advice; the probity of his character: all this made him the idol of his compatriots. The latter, eager to have him on the local political scene, elected him councillor. He served as councilman for six years and provided the municipality of Sacramento with electricity, electric lights and trams, running water and a public cemetery for both Sacramento and the town of Conquista. But politics was not the climate to which he aspired. After serving in politics, he spontaneously retired from it.

At the time, Barsanulfo was a fervent Catholic, president of the St. Vincent de Paul Conference.

A free spirit, apt for the great waves of spirituality, his future abandonment of the religion he had received in his cradle was fatal.

So one day, hearing about the amazing healings in the field of spiritism, he decided to find out what was true in these reports. As his relatives in St. Mary's preached and practised spiritism at the Spiritist Centre Faith and Love, well known in the city and one of the oldest in the region, Barsanulfo went there to investigate the facts for himself.

Observing phenomena of typology, highly philosophical communications and marvellous healings in various séances, he studied them carefully and, on his return to his homeland, brought with him the works of Kardec, which finally led him to convert to Spiritism in 1905. From then on, he became the greatest propagandist in that region of Minas Gerais, mainly by example. The building that Euripides erected in Sacramento is one of those grandiose and imperishable monuments that testify to his moral fortitude and the strength of his luminous faith.

For twelve years and seven months he was president of the Spiritist Group "Hope and Charity", which he founded. On April 2, 1907, the magnificent and extensive "Allan Kardec" College was founded as a branch of this group.

This important establishment functioned under his able direction during the whole time he lived here on earth, leaving it only eight days before he disincarnated. Thousands of poor and orphans of both sexes received free intellectual and moral instruction there, a work continued by the brothers of the late Euripides. Every Wednesday he preached the Gospel of Jesus to the pupils of the school, encouraging them, in simple terms, to love and charity.

In his heated polemics, from which he always emerged victorious, there was never a hint of vanity in his heart, he never harboured any trace of pity, he never descended to the ungrateful ground of personal retaliation, treating all his contenders with the greatest possible elegance and no less Christian love.

Euripides Barsanulfo was endowed with several developed mediumistic faculties, being a healing medium, prescriber, listener, clairvoyant, intuitive, talker and psychographer. It was very easy for him to move from one place to another, and he gave the exact topography of the places through which his spirit passed.

It was a refuge for all the afflicted and abandoned. Hundreds of people disillusioned by earthly science found comfort in Sacramento. With the help of Superior Spirits, among them Bezerra de Menezes, our Barsanulfo cured almost all illnesses.

A man who was not afraid to spread the truths he professed, he was the incarnation of the true spiritist. A faithful disciple of Jesus, he was the comfort and support of all who came to him, and to all he gave the same welcome, the same love. It does not seem that he had any personal enemies.

For all this, he enjoyed great popularity in his hometown and even in the entire state of Minas Gerais. Even today, Barsanulfo is still remembered and blessed in that region, where he left indelible traces of his brilliant career. On 1 November 1918, he died in his hometown, victim of the influenza pandemic.