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© 2018 by Instituto São Miguel. Created by Instituto S. Miguel I Protection Data Medal of Merit delivered by Excellency the President of the Republic in 2014 The League of the Servants of Jesus is formed by Internal and External Servants, it has its headquarters in Guarda. It is the entity that owns and is the main driver of the São Miguel Institute. The League of Bishops of the Diocese of Guarda, as*isted by a General As*istant, presides over the League. It is considered a vast spiritual family formed by men, women, married, single, lay people of any social condition who, seeking to live in the manner of the first Christians, are willing to realize this motto in life: IT IS PRECISE THAT JESUS ​​D. João de Oliveira Matos, was the founder of the League of Servants of Jesus. He was born in Valverde, Fundão county, in a humble house, on March 1, 1879. After studying at the primary school and at the Liceu de Castelo Branco, he entered the Guarda Seminary in September 1896. He made his Priestly Ordination to 28 of March 1903 and Episcopal on July 25, 1923. D. João was able to gather in Lajeosa do Mondego, on February 11, 1924, a small phalanx of souls of good will to whom he outlined his plan: the Work that let's found it will be for men, women, married, single and even sick. He founded by this time the League of the Servants of Jesus, on February 17, 1924. He died in Outeiro de São Miguel on August 29, 1962. On January 30, 1994, the Diocesan process was opened for his A 13 de Junho of 2013 the heroic Virtues were recognized and declared Venerable by the Congregation for the Cause of the Saints.