Memória e sacralização de Dom Fernando Gomes dos Santos: O “Arcebispo da Providência”
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2011-07-01
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Universidade Federal de Goiás
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This study investigates the process by which Don Fernando Gomes dos Santos, the first
Archbishop of Goiânia (1957-1985), was represented - by the means of communication of the
archdiocese, particularly by the Journal of the Archdiocese - as sent by God to act in this
Region in the period when the church faced, in Goiás and Brazil, complex challenges. Studies
indicate that the Archbishop, imbued with his mission, sought to become a model of religious
who devoted his life to the Church‟s cause, besides concerning about how he would be
remembered by archiving his memory and also the archdiocese‟s one. From this perspective,
the group formed around the Archbishop has operated a selection of aspects and stages of the
life of the prelate, considered significant, seeking to represent him as a Christian model
capable of facing the challenges brought to the Church in that period, projecting his memory
to continue guiding the actions of the archdiocese in the future. This effort has basis on the
archbishop's actions since he seemed to take up the task of making of Goiás a model of
church in Brazil, signaling through words and deed that goal. By building these
representations, and designing the memory of Don Fernando, the group aimed at defending
the model of Church adopted by the prelate, against the social sectors and also to groups who
fought, within the institution, his pastoral line or did not accept its consequences. This process
has been in force during the management of the archbishop and more than a decade after his
death, having as special moments for this discursive construction the events in honor of him,
recorded in the Journal of the Archdiocese. However, the work of continued memory during
the administration of his successor was stopped when the current Archbishop of Goiânia took
up office, giving rise to a dispute of memory during the centenary of Don Fernando‟s birth in
2010.
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BORGES, L. Memória e sacralização de Dom Fernando Gomes dos Santos: O “Arcebispo da Providência”. 2011. 278 f. Tese (Doutorado em História) - Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, 2011.