Fé e devoção: a vivência histórico-litúrgica das Irmandades de Nossa Senhora do Rosário dos Homens Pretos de Ouro Preto

Abstract

In the last years of the seventeenth century, São Paulo adventurers discover gold in Minas Gerais. Abundant wealth and high quality, attracts people from various parts of the colony and the metropolis intended to enrich easily. Formed rapidly in that region a population initially organized in tents and later in towns and cities. Frightened by the possibility of losing control over the riches recently discovered quickly lusos prohibit the entry of religious orders and clergy in the region. However, as Catholicism is part of the process of conquest of the Brazilian lands, the trust Lusitanian Church organization gold mines initiative of lay men and women, empowering and influencing the creation of sororities, fraternities and third orders. These, in addition to the duties of worship also receive orders to engage the social needs of its members, such as health care, pension and burial if the deceased. In this work, we will try to understand in what consisted this peculiar form of church organization that these were lay associations, under the bias of liturgical spirituality groups, specifically those made by slaves and their descendants of the Brotherhoods of Our Lady of the Rosary of Black Men of Ouro Preto