Abstract

SANTOS, Magno Francisco de Jesus. In the silence of the enclosure: seers of Marian apparitions in Brazil (1928-1937). Rev. Diálogo Educ. [online]. 2019, vol.19, n.63, pp.1397-1417.  Epub Jan 30, 2020. ISSN 1981-416X.  https://doi.org/10.7213/1981-416x.19.063.ds04.

This work has as its scope the memories of two nuns who witnessed Marian visions in Brazil during the first half of the twentieth century. In 1929, Sister Amália de Flagella Jesus (1901-1977), a member of the Congregation of the Missionaries of Jesus Crucified, began her visions of Jesus Manietado and Our Lady of Tears in the city of Campinas, state of Sao Paulo. This religious experience was widely publicized in the press and in just five years the diocesan bishop, Dom Francisco Campos Barreto recognized the visions and authorized the third of the tears. On the other hand, in 1936, in the village of Cimbres, state of Pernambuco, the young Maria da Luz Teixeira Carvalho, who would have the religious name of Sister Adelia (1922-2013), had the vision of Our Lady of Graces, announcing the dangers of the spread of communism in the country. After the apparitions, the girl joined the Congregation of Christian Ladies in Recife, on a vow of silence on the issue. With this, I have as research problem the construction of memory on the two visions and the actions of silence and seclusion of the seers within the enclosures and spaces of visionary religious experience. The research has as its central sources the records produced during the thirties of the twentieth century, the moment of greatest public evidence of visions, with questionnaires made by religious to the visionaries in the process of diocesan verification of visions, news published in the press. This documentation was analyzed in order to understand the construction of memories and silences (POLLAK, 1989), the uses of memory places (NORA, 1993) and the experiences (THOMPSON, 2007) of the religious in the initial scope of constitution of a society. anti-communist Catholic political culture. In this case, the proposal dialogues with the new political history, within the concept of political culture (RÉMOND, 2003). In this sense, it became possible to understand the discursive fissures and polysemias in the process of affirmation and forgetting of Marian visions in Brazil of the 1930s.

Keywords : Marian apparitions; Sister Amália of Jesus Flagellated; Sister Adelia; visionary culture; Brazil.

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