From Álvaro to Henri Cristo: the certificate that reveals Italian roots.

If Henri Cristo is indeed Jesus, as suggested by the character that made him famous on social media, then Jesus was born Álvaro Thais in Indaial, Santa Catarina, was married to a woman of Japanese origin, has two children, and, according to the documents, pays child support.

The researcher draws a humorous conclusion. Vitor Costa Marques, who spent weeks scouring Italian birth certificates, genealogical records, and "registry offices" to discover who Henri Cristo really is.

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The investigation shows that Henri changed his name twice during his life: first to Álvaro Henri Cristo and later to Henri Cristo Thais. The same birth certificate records that he was married to a woman of Japanese origin named Kiyo Iri and is the father of two children.

Great-grandparents of Treviso

To trace the family's Italian origins, the FamilySearch database was consulted. FamilySearch is an online genealogy platform maintained by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and widely used by family tree researchers. In the marriage records found on the platform, Henri's grandparents appear as Valentim Thais and Brigitte Thais.

The grandparents' marriage certificate indicates that Henri's great-grandparents were José Moretti and Catarina Balzan, both natives of Italy. To confirm this information, the Civil Registry of [Italy] was contacted. Cison de Valmarinoin the province of Treviso, in Veneto, the couple's marriage certificate.

"If Henri is Jesus, then Jesus is Italian."

The research was conducted within a specific context: to investigate whether the influencer, whose public persona evokes messianic figures, actually had Jesuit or special religious origins. According to the researcher, the documents revealed that Henri Cristo's roots are in Santa Catarina and Italy, without any historical connection to the Middle East or Jewish tradition. The phrase that summarizes the discovery is from the researcher himself: "If Henri is Jesus, then Jesus is Italian, from Santa Catarina, divorced, and pays child support for two children."

Henri Cristo's documentary trajectory is representative of a recurring profile among descendants of Italian immigrants in Southern Brazil: families from Veneto who settled in Santa Catarina in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, whose surnames were Brazilianized over the generations. The Moretti and Balzan families of Treviso are part of this migratory history that shaped cities like Indaial.