Abstract

GUEDES, Edson Claiton  and  PASQUINI, Adriana Salvaterra. Brother Elias Zulian: education and mission in the region of Ponta Grossa, PR (1952-1976). Roteiro [online]. 2019, vol.44, n.2, e19740.  Epub May 14, 2019. ISSN 2177-6059.  https://doi.org/10.18593/r.v44i2.19740.

This text analyzes the role played by the capuchin Friar Elias Zulian (1920-1976) in the educational context of the Paraná region of the Campos Gerais, between 1952 and 1976. We understand that personal and institutional desires influenced the performance of religious. We question: what is the scope of the work of Friar Elias in the education context of the region? He was born on August 9, 1920 in the city of Postioma, diocese of Treviso. He joined the seminar in 1932, being ordained a priest in Venice in the year 1945. In 1949 he was sent as a missionary to the State of Paraná, exercising his apostolate in Barra Fria (1949), Bandeirantes (1950-1951) and the City of Ponta Grossa (1952-1976), assuming the Chaplaincy of the Viação Paraná network-Santa Catarina (VPNSC). His performance extrapolated the boundaries of the altar and culminated in the structuring of an important eductional apparatus. For the development of the research, documentary research was carried out in primary sources such as the Internal Bulletin of the Paraná and Santa Catarina Provinces and the Archivio Provinciali Cappuccini of the Province São Lourenço de Brindes, as well as bibliographical studies related to church, state and Education as a space of dispute (Juan Esquivel and Riolando Azzi). As a method of analysis, the research was based on the consideration that the actions of individuals is determinated by the materiality of historical conditions, that is Dialectical Historical Materialism. From the analysis of the sources we found Friar Elias expressed the desires of the Catholic Church and of a society. Its actions served for the propagation of the public school in the Campos Gerais region of the State of Paraná.

Keywords : Historiography of Education; Education; Friar Elias Zulian; Order of Minor Friars Capuchin..

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