Antonio Conselheiro (Anthony the Counselor, real name Antonio Vicente Mendes Maciel) was a religious man and founder of the village of Canudos, in the state of Bahia, Brazil. Canudos was a town founded in the Bahia state of northeastern Brazil in 1893 by Antonio Maciel, an itinerant preacher who had been wandering through the backroads and lesser-inhabited climes of the country from the 1870s onwards, followed by a band of loyal supporters. ... Map of the Bahia bay in 1882 Flag of Bahia Bahia is a state in the north-east of Brazil. ...
The story of Antonio Conselheiro has been dramatized in Euclides da Cunha's book Rebellion in the Backlands. He is also portrayed in "The War at the End of the World", a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa Euclides da Cunha Euclides of the Cunha (b. ...
It was fiercely counter-attacked, however, by a band of 500 armed men, screaming hails to AntonioConselheiro and the monarchy; the Brazilian army retreated, after incurring severe losses and slaying 150 of the attackers, many of whom were armed only with machetes, primitive lances and axes.
This time, the attackers were aided by rampant hunger and malnutrition among the inhabitants of Canudos, the rebels lack of weapons and ammunition, and the heavy losses they had suffered in the previous attacks.
Furthermore, their spiritual leader and overtowering figure, AntonioConselheiro, had died on September 22, probably of dysentery and malnutrition provoked by fasting for penance.
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