Juazeiro do Norte, Brazil
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Bus station

Avenida Castelo Branco

History

Until the middle of the 19th century the most important town in the Cariri valley, one of the most fertile areas in the agricultural state of Ceará, was Crato; then, in the latter half of the century, it began to be displaced in that role by Juazeiro do Norte, largely because of the work of Padre Cícero Romão Batista, a priest who had opposed the Roman Catholic authorities and had been suspended from his office but who in the eyes of ordinary people was a wonderworker and a saint. Padre Cícero and his supporters set the pattern of local politics, and his memory is still very much alive today.