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Cl\u00e9lia Soares da Rocha was born in the city of Barra Mansa, State of Rio de Janeiro, on 18 October 1886 and passed away at the age of 50 on 16 February 1936. She was educated as a boarder at Col\u00e9gio Bom Conselho, in the city of Taubat\u00e9, completing her education in the city of Piracicaba, where she received her primary school teaching diploma. She taught for several years at Col\u00e9gio das Freiras, in the city of S\u00e3o Carlos. Coming from a traditionally Catholic family, Cl\u00e9lia Rocha soon showed repugnance for the dogmas of her parents' religion, which happened early in her childhood, resulting in serious punishments at the boarding school, where she came to be considered a rebellious child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While still a student in Piracicaba, she met a young doctor, whom she agreed to marry. However, the young man died suddenly, shattering all her dreams as a young woman. She never thought about marriage again, dedicating her entire life to teaching and caring for orphaned and disadvantaged children. One day, she decided to open a school in the city of Dourados to teach adults who were unable to attend classes during the day. She ran it for some time and provided free teaching materials to all those who could not afford them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At that time, the great missionary An\u00e1lia Franco visited the city and, seeing the unspeakable sacrifice that the young teacher was making, invited her to join her team, offering to help her in any way she could. From that time on, they became great friends and mutual collaborators. They founded a daycare centre for poor mothers in the neighbourhood and a shelter for orphans. An\u00e1lia Franco had complete confidence in Cl\u00e9lia Rocha's work. In one of her letters, she even stated: \u2018You are the director who has best assimilated our ideals and has achieved so much. If all the other co-workers did as you do, we would accomplish a great deal.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of 1918, An\u00e1lia Franco founded a nursing home in the city of Uberaba, in Minas Gerais, and invited Cl\u00e9lia Rocha to be its director. Shortly thereafter, on 13 January 1919, An\u00e1lia passed away in S\u00e3o Paulo, unable to complete her work. Cl\u00e9lia, faithful to her memory and respecting her last wishes, decided to move to Uberaba with all her pupils, later founding a school in that city with 18 boarders to accommodate her 72 boarding students. In view of her charitable work, she repeatedly applied for municipal, state and federal subsidies, but her petitions never received any response because, as a Spiritist, she was intensely persecuted by local priests. Like An\u00e1lia Franco, she organised a Literary, Artistic and Musical Ensemble with her own pupils and toured the cities of the interior of the states of S\u00e3o Paulo and Minas Gerais, obtaining the means to maintain her establishment, with some success. Faithful to the memory of An\u00e1lia Franco, she did everything to ensure that the ideals she espoused were maintained in their entirety, always conducting herself with a true spirit of self-denial and sacrifice, always attesting to her spiritual greatness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She founded the Liga Feminina Oper\u00e1rias do Bem (Women Workers' League of Good) with her pupils over the age of 16, with the aim of forming new teams of cooperators who could later continue her great charitable work. In 1924, she moved to the city of S\u00e3o Manoel, in the state of S\u00e3o Paulo, where she met Amando Sim\u00f5es, a wealthy farmer in the region with a well-educated mind and a generous heart who, knowing her great difficulties and stoic courage, decided to help her by donating a building and part of his land so that Cl\u00e9lia could set up her educational establishment there. Thanks to the prestige of this selfless confrere, she soon had the support of part of the population and the sympathy of the City Council, thus enabling her to expand her charitable work. She welcomed dozens of orphaned children into the \u2018Lar de An\u00e1lia Franco\u2019 and held numerous weddings for her former students there, entrusting them with the task of becoming housewives, reintegrated into society, to serve as wives and mothers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1930, at Christmas time, she founded the \u2018Creche Ber\u00e7o de Ouro\u2019 (Golden Cradle Nursery), intended to take in small children, maintaining it with all the love in her soul. She was a fervent Spiritist and was very interested in doctrinal matters. An\u00e1lia was a writer, journalist, poet, playwright, musician and language teacher. She wrote several plays for the theatre; her dramas, comedies and surveys were staged with great success by the Theatre Group. She also presented many poems and musical compositions. An accomplished teacher of manual arts, she taught classes in artificial flowers, painting, embroidery, culinary arts, and music, preparing her adopted daughters to become talented housewives of the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In private, she was called \u2018Mother Lili\u2019 by all her adopted daughters. She gave her own name to many of them when they were abandoned at the \u2018Creche Ber\u00e7o de Ouro\u2019 (Golden Cradle Nursery) and their relatives did not show up. Having to regularise their civil records, she never hesitated to register them under her own name. She founded the literary journal \u2018L\u00edrio Branco\u2019 and \u2018Mensageiro do \u00d3rf\u00e3o\u2019 (now \u2018Mensageiro do Lar\u2019), a publication promoting Spiritism, which continues to be edited in the printing workshops of Lar An\u00e1lia Franco, in the city of S. Manoel. Cl\u00e9lia Rocha was, therefore, a missionary in the true sense of the word, belonging to the group of valiant Spiritist women of the same calibre as An\u00e1lia Franco, Ol\u00edmpia Bel\u00e9m, Aura Celeste, Eur\u00eddice Panar, Abigair Lima and so many others.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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