Vida de padre: trabalho, cultura e fé no Alto São Francisco (1754-1832)

Abstract

The problematic of this research whether outlined in with the priest´s practice in the their space of action had contributed to the construction of place and of cultural everyday and religious of the parishes of the Alto São Francisco. The spatial snippet refers to one borderline region between the dioceses of Mariana, Olinda, São Paulo and the prelature of Goiás, territory of the west of Minas, in the Mariana's diocese, actualy denominated Alto São Francisco. The study of Church History in this territory is determinant to thing the eccleiastic historical space in the Gerais. The creating period of the five first parishes of actual diocese of Luz, borderline the time snippet, 1754 at 1832. The objective of research is to analise like the everyday practices of the priests in the their space of action had contributed to the construction of cultural place and religious of Alto São Francisco. Therefore, it were analysed the sources: Auto de Inquirição, of archive of Centro de Memória da Diocese de Luz, the letter pastoral of Dom Frei José da Santíssima Trindade (1821-1825), of Instituto Estadual do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico de Minas Gerais, the Juízo of Arquivo Eclesiástico Arquidiocesano de Mariana and the Constituições Primeiras do Arcebispado da Bahia. To auxiliary in the analise of the documentation we use concepts elaborated to Michel de Certeau and Nicola Gasbarro, such as: place, space, everyday, cultural action, cultural practises, orthodoxy and orthopractice.