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Friday,
December 29th of 2006
Irineu Serra
Memorial
The
restoration of the Raimundo Irineu Serra’s Memorial
(1892-1971), of the Universal Light Christian illumination
Center (CICLU - Alto Santo), was inaugurated yesterday
with the presence of the governor Jorge Viana, of
the mayor Raimundo Angelim and of Peregrina Gomes
Serra, widow of the Daime doctrine’s founder.
The memorial is the wooden home built between 1942 and 1945 by Mestre Irineu, in the place baptized by him as Alto da Santa Cruz (Summit of the Holy Cross), better known, world-wide, as Alto Santo, situated 5 miles from the center of Rio Branco city. There are in the memorial a full pile of photos, books, documents and objects that belonged to the doctrine’s founder and his disciples.
The
journalist Antonio Alves, speaker of CICLU –
Alto Santo, made a deposition about the experience
of arriving for the first time to the home where Irineu
Serra lived. He thanked the governor Jorge Viana on
behalf of the dignitary Peregrina Serra and of the
Santo Daime fraternity.
"I thank you and I wish that these eight years, plus
the four years as a mayor, be followed for all of
the Acre rulers as an example. That never more the
Acre people forgets how much they owes to Mestre Raimundo
Irineu Serra, who is one of the Acre builders, and
that they don’t forget how much they owes to
his past, to his history and that the people never
forgets that they were reborn from the ashes and today
they present themselves to Brazil as a state worthy
of being Brazilian. May this Government of the forest,
which helped the people from Acre to rise and set
its foundations before the world, be a simple, strong
and perennial government alike this house. This place
has existed since always, and it will exist until
forever. For us it is the center of the universe and
for who follows the teachings of Mestre Irineu this
place is an eternal habitation."
Visibly
touched, the governor Jorge Viana told that he attends
the Alto Santo since he was a child and that the first
image that he kept of Irineu Serra is the one of a
governor bowing himself before Mestre’s hand.
"In that house there was already for me the message
of humility: to bow yourself before whom? Before the
Acre’s state, before of our forest, before a
simple man and loaded with wisdom. I never comprehended
quite right why I only recollect this image: the one
of the governor Jorge Kalume bowing himself before
Mestre Irineu."
(From http://www.altino.blogspot.com/)
