Narrativas sobre o culto à Cruz da Baixa Rasa em Crato/CE: sensibilidades mimetizadas.

Abstract

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.