Santo Daime Timeline
1892 - Raimundo Irineu Serra was born
in the town of São Vicente de Férrer in the northeastern Brazilian state of Maranhão.
1912 - Raimundo Irineu Serra followed the "rubber boom" and moved to the
state of Acre in the Amazon region.
1920 - Sebastião Mota de Melo was born
in a rubber extraction camp on the banks of the Juruá river in the municipality
of Eirunepe in Amazonas state.
1931 - Mestre Irineu started his works at Vila Ivonete, Rio Branco, Acre.
1940 - Mestre Irineu moved to the Custódio Freire area of Rio Branco to land
donated by Governor Guiomar dos Santos, today known as Alto Santo.
1955 - Mestre Irineu received recognition from the Círculo Esotérico de
Comunhão do Pensamento, a group based in São Paulo.
1956 - Mestre Irineu married Peregrina Gomes, grandaughter of Antônio Gomes.
1959 - Padrinho Sebastião moved his family to Rio Branco.
1965 - Padrinho Sebastião first drank Daime with Mestre Irineu at
Alto Santo
and was cured from illness.
1971 - Mestre Irineu passed away.
1973 - The Brazilian federal police began persecution Santo Daime, and
Leôncio Gomes and Padrinho Sebastião ostensibly split over Sebastião trying to
modify Mestre Irineu's original doctrine by raising the Brazilian flag during
works.
1979 - Padrinho Sebastião decided to sell part of the land at Colonia 5000
and move his community to Rio do Ouro.
1980 - Padrinho Sebastião founded the community at Rio do Ouro.
1981 - Leôncio Gomes passed away.
1982 - Due to a conflict over ownership of Rio do Ouro, Padrinho Sebastião
again moved his community and founded
Céu do Mapiá in Amazonas.
1990 - Padrinho Sebastião
passed away in Rio de Janeiro.
