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CUNHA, Tatiane Oliveira da. “Practices and sermons in the name of the Christ...:” Capuchins
in the “cruzade por civilization” in Sergipe State (1874-1901). 140. f. 2011. Mastership
dissertation – College of phylosophy and human Science, Federal University of Bahia,
Salvador, 2011.
ABSTRACT
In the second half of the 19 th century Brazil faced the substitution of the slave manual job for
the free one and at the some time it aimed be transformed into a civilized nation into the
European standard. It is in this aspect that this research ains to get to understand the
contribution of the itinerant missions of the capuchins in the cruzade for civilization in
Sergipe state between 1874-1901. For that to happen, we used as a leading wire the
performace of the missionary friar João Evangelista Giuliani de Monte Marciano from his
memories notebook. We realized these missions let several contributions. They helped to
make the authorities plans as well as the landlords real as they convoke the population to
labour. The ideal of work as a salvation instrument did not get only in the sermon. The
missionaries led Sergipe people to build important comunitary buildings helping the state to
supply the lack of roads, bridges, reservoirs, graveyards and hospitals. They transmited the
habits of the Catholicism to a shy population of parish priests the mission was also a
celebration to the people that besides the sacrament practice enjoyed the religious event to
neet relatives and friends and also to get new social nets which were very useful to business.
However we noticed that the appropriation of the mensage by the population wasn‟t exactly
the way the civilian and religious authorities wished but they were influenced by their own
view of the world. In this research it was used beyond the standard sources of the capuchins
order the reports by the Presidents of the Provinces and the descriptions of the memoirists.
Key words: Capuchins, Missions, Civilization, Labour, Sergipe State.