About Divaldo Pereira Fra Divaldo Pereira Franco (born May 5, 1927, Feira de Santana, Brazil) is a prominent Spiritist speaker and medium. He represented Spiritism as a delegate to the United Nations August 28–31st, 2000, Millennium World Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders. After the death of the Brazilian medium Chico Xavier in 2002, Divaldo became the most representative figure of the Kardecian Spiritism worldwide.On March 12, 2004, Divaldo presented the seminar Understanding Spiritual and Mental Health at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, in Baltimore. "Divaldo Pereira Franco offers a psycologized counterpoint to the popular Spiritism paradigm established around the work of Chico Xavier". "Divaldo Pereira Franco had a prevalent role in the implantation and consolidation of the Spiritist Movement in the United States."