Every Spiritist caravan that goes to Uberaba also stops in Sacramento, a small town 75 kilometres away. The reason has a name: Eurípedes Barsanulfo. Those who had never heard of him often come back saying it was the visit that surprised them most.
Who was Eurípedes Barsanulfo?
Eurípedes Barsanulfo was a Brazilian medium, educator and pharmacist who lived in Sacramento, in the Triângulo Mineiro, between 1880 and 1918.
He was born in Sacramento on 1 May 1880 and died in the same town on 1 November 1918, aged 38, a victim of the Spanish flu. He was a pharmacist and saw patients free of charge at his pharmacy. He was also a teacher and a journalist, took part in local politics and, from 1905, became the medium and educator who gave the town its place in the history of Brazilian Spiritism.
In 1902 he opened a school, the Liceu Sacramentano. In 1907, by then a Spiritist, he turned the school into the Colégio Allan Kardec, the first Spiritist school in Brazil. There he taught the usual subjects as well as the doctrine. He died young, eleven years after giving the school its name.
What is there today in Sacramento, the town of Eurípedes Barsanulfo?
Sacramento, in the Triângulo Mineiro, still preserves the Colégio Allan Kardec, the Grupo Espírita Esperança e Caridade, the Lar de Eurípedes and the Escola Eurípedes Barsanulfo, institutions linked to the memory of Eurípedes Barsanulfo.
- Colégio Allan Kardec. The building no longer works as a school, but it is open to visitors every day, with free admission. Inside are the Memorial Eurípedes Barsanulfo and the Museu Corina Novelino, with objects, documents and the history of the school.
- Grupo Espírita Esperança e Caridade, founded by him in 1905 and still active.
- Lar de Eurípedes, from 1952, and the Escola Eurípedes Barsanulfo, from 1975, institutions created in his name after his death.
The town is small and quiet. The visit to the school takes a morning, and the group usually has lunch in town before moving on.
Why does a Spiritist caravan visit Sacramento?
Sacramento is part of a Spiritist caravan itinerary because it was there that Eurípedes Barsanulfo founded the Colégio Allan Kardec, a landmark that predates the story of Chico Xavier in Uberaba.
Uberaba tells the life of Chico Xavier. Sacramento shows where part of what he taught came from: Eurípedes died when Chico was eight years old, and the school in Sacramento predates everything that happened in Pedro Leopoldo and Uberaba. Seeing both places in the same week helps you understand the sequence. That is why the route of our caravan is Uberaba, Sacramento, Conquista and Araxá, over eight days departing from Porto Alegre.
What this trip is like, who goes and what to bring are covered in Spiritist caravan: what it is and how it works. The places to visit in Uberaba, with addresses and opening hours, are in Chico Xavier in Uberaba: the visit itinerary. The next departure for the Triângulo Mineiro is the one in November 2026, and the full calendar is at all trips.
