Frei Caneca

Brazilian priest

Joaquim da Silva Rabelo, later Frei Joaquim do Amor Divino Rabelo (August 20, 1779 – January 13, 1825), commonly known as Frei Caneca (English: Friar Mug), was a Brazilian religious leader, politician, and journalist.

He was involved in multiple revolts in Northeastern Brazil during the early 19th century.He acted as the main leader on the Pernambuco Revolt.

As a journalist, he founded and edited Typhis Pernambucano, a weekly journal used on the Confederation of the Equator.Evaldo Cabral de Mello described him as: "The man in the history of Brazil that embodied the quintessential nativist sentiment was curiously a Lusitanian 'jus sanguinis'."