Divaldo Franco

Divaldo Pereira Franco (May 5, 1927 – May 13, 2025) was a Brazilian spiritist speaker and medium. In 1952, he founded the charity Mansão do Caminho in Salvador, Bahia, which serves and shelters thousands of people, hundreds of whom are registered as children of the medium. The copyrights of his psychographed books were donated to this and other philanthropic institutions. He was nicknamed the "Paul of Tarsus of spiritism" for his work in spreading the spiritist doctrine.