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Luciana is the eldest of three sisters, raised with great love by her father and mother in a practicing Catholic family. Despite this, she became the first Umbanda follower in the family. Since she was a child, she has always been involved with the Catholic religion, but her connection with spirituality grew naturally.
Her mother, who was a medium, attended the Mesa Branca Center of Sister Catarina, where Luciana also attended and was very well received. There, she received advice and words of love. As a child, she attended the Cosme and Damião and Doum parties, where she saw adults embodied with children, and enjoyed the cakes and sweets filled with axé. Her mother, realizing that Luciana had a more developed spiritual sensitivity than the rest of the family, always respected her and encouraged her with great affection.
As an adult, already in college, Sister Catarina revealed to Luciana that her mediumship would develop after she completed her studies, and that she would take the initiative to make it happen. Thus, Luciana immersed herself in spiritual studies for about nine years, learning a lot about spirituality and the Spiritist religion.
Her first contact with Umbanda, as an assistant, was remarkable. She was frightened when she heard an Exu say: "Hey, pretty girl, how are you?", and ran out of the House. At the time, she was still afraid of the People of the Left, due to society's prejudiced and erroneous views, which associate Exu with the devil. In truth, Exu is a friend, a guardian, a worker of divine justice, just like the Pombagiras, Exus-Mirins and Pombagiras-Mirins. Today, Luciana has immense love and affection for them.
In the same Holy House in São Paulo, the old black man Pai Joaquim de Angola invited Luciana to participate in the session, wearing white and singing the points, as it was the inauguration of a Terreiro with few people present. In a short time, she was crowned as a medium of passes.
After her first marriage, she learned more about Umbanda, as he was a Pai de Santo. In September 2010, she became the mother of Bárbara, who was named in honor of Iansã, who in syncretism with Catholicism is Saint Bárbara.
That same year, on December 4th, which is the birthday of her biological mother, in addition to being Iansã's day, she was crowned as Little Mother, continuing her spiritual mission.
With her marriage to Pai Marcelo, her love for Umbanda grew even stronger. Together, they demonstrate a deep love for the religion. Each day, her mission becomes more fulfilled: to become Yalorixá (Great Mother, spiritual leader of a House of Orixás).
Luciana continues to seek knowledge through spiritual studies, as she believes that "what is not studied, is not understood and is not comprehended". Mother Luciana also carries with great honor and humility the title of First Mother of Saint in the United States, that is, a female spiritual leader to head a Holy House of Umbanda in the United States.
On their spiritual journey, Mother Luciana and Father Marcelo also had the joy of learning a little about Candomblé through the spiritual leaders Father Alex (in memoriam) and Father Flávio de Ode (Oxóssi). They walked and were welcomed with much love in this Terreiro.
Today, Father Marcelo is mother Luciana's right-hand man, and together they lead the Sacred Umbanda Temple Mother Iansã and Father Ogum, founded on April 20, 2025, with much dedication, love and faith.