Práticas festivo-religiosas na Irmandade de Nossa Senhora do Rosário e São Benedito, Florianópolis (inícios do XX)

Abstract

This article presents considerations concerning the experiences of brothers and sisters active in the Brotherhood of Our Lady of the Rosary and Saint Benedict, in Florianópolis/SC at the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth. Used as sources memories recorded in written documents and photographs that reveal looks and performances in which we can infer expressions of their cultural traits and you live. We aim to understand the impact that social changes stemming from the abolition of slavery, the installation of the Republic and his works/renovations cleansers, Romanization clerical and coming of German priests to Santa Catarina, had this Brotherhood, interfering in their forms of organization, expression cultural spaces of sociability and social visibility of African descent in the city of Florianópolis. We returned attention to the festivities in honor of the patron saints, being the feast and procession endowed with much preparation, decorations, bells and music.