It seems like a week when the candidates for canonization in my church are leaving us. First Fr. Berrigan, and now the last of the Villas Boas brothers.

Orlando Villas Boas, a leading advocate of indigenous rights who never shied away from recounting his adventures in Brazil’s vast Amazon rain forest, died yesterday. He was 88.

The fun-loving, gregarious Mr. Villas Boas was the last surviving of four brothers who dedicated their lives to protecting Brazil’s Indian tribes. Boston Globe