Venerable Pelágio Sauter (9 November 1878 – 23 November 1961) was a German Roman Catholic priest who exercised his pastoral mission as part of the missions in his Brazil and who was also a member of the Redemptorists.
He served in the Brazilian missions from 1909 until his death and was never to return to his homeland again once he departed.
He was dedicated to the needs of the ill and poor and often visited hundreds of villages on horseback.
His care of the sick intensified in the last decade of his life and contracted his final illness (which led to his death) while visiting an ill person.His beatification process commenced after his death and culminated with the declaration of his life of heroic virtue in 2014.
This conferred the title of Venerable upon him.
The miracle required for his beatification is now under investigation.