SALES, A. C.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/8195081707238814; SALES, Ana Cristina de.
Resumen:
The text discuss memory construction about the religious worship to the Cruz da Baixa
Rasa that happen in countryside of the municipality of Crato, state of Ceara, Northeast
Brazil. This memory is constituted from origin in the death of a man who would has
been lost in the Araripe National Forest (Floresta Nacional do Araripe – FLONA) with
his horse and his dog to looking for a herd. Event that would have occurred in the end
19th century and was responsible for to awaken in the Ceara Cariri population multiples
sensitivities that gave origin the believe of that dead had spent to perform miracles,
having narratives that are retroactive to 1914 as landmark of the reach of thanks by the
faithful. Then constituted a tradition in the form of cult, and since then, the devotees
came to celebrate the monument erected at the site and to perform all posthumous
tributes everyday on January 25th, feeding a cycle of pilgrimage in the locality. There
are many miracles attributed to the Cruz da Baixa Rasa and, so it, some religious were
buried near of this momument. In 2002 the responsible authorities by the place banned
the burials, but many of the devotees demonstrate their desire to be buried in this space
as a way of were near of their intercessor. In this sense, the proposed study take as main
source material collected through the application of oral history, not limited to this, and
is based on the theoretical perspective of cultural history.
