Around 1550, Heliodor Hesse arrived in Brazil . He was the son of the German humanist Helius Eobano Hesse, a friend of Martin Luther. Heliodor Hesse was a clerk and lived in São Vicente, one of the first evangelical Lutherans in Brazil. As an ally of Estácio de Sá, he participated in the fighting against the French in Rio de Janeiro, in which Estácio de Sá was killed. However, Hesse became, after the victory on January 20, 1567, co-founder of the second São Sebastião in Rio de Janeiro. See more about this story at: Jornal Eletrônico Novo Milênio and Portal Luteranos.