Patrício: a construção da imagem de um Santo
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2012-04-18
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Universidade Federal de Goiás
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Several books dedicated to the life and career of Saint Patrick seem not to
take narrative problems into consideration or at least not to focus on them. The main
subject in this particular field is the real or historical Patrick, in contrast to the fictional. The
authors of these works try to overcome the gap between referent and representation,
transcending then in order to find a hidden meaning in the past. Part of the so-called
Patrician problem is related to this need of being forced to choose between real and
representation. Patrick s history is analyzed differently in this research; we are more
interested in understanding the representations than to transcend them. By reading some of
the most important documents related to Patrick, we found three different images about him:
1) the auto-image of the Ego Patricius peccator rusticissimus, present in the Confessio and
Epistola, both from the fifth century, the earliest texts to be written in Ireland we have; 2)
Patrick, the apostle of all Irish people, from Muirchú s master piece Vita Sancti Patricii,
written in the seventh century, associated with propaganda and political disputes between
monastic houses in Ireland; 3) Patrick, the first man to visit the Purgatorium, from the
Tractatus de Purgatorio Sancti Patricii Apostoli Hibernensis, written by H. of Saltrey in
the twelfth century. Real and representation are two sides of the same coin. Thus, without
any clear-cut distinction in this sense and not looking for a pure past, a different approach
of the documents is given. Instead of thinking about the authors of these references as liars
and fiction-makers, we try to comprehend the portrait of Patrick they elaborated. These
representations along with those from Confessio and Epistola are crucial for the process of
building the image of Patrick as a Saint.
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SANTOS, Dominique Vieira Coelho dos. Patrick: The making of a saint. 2012. 242 f. Tese (Doutorado em História) - Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, 2012.