Tempo barroco: as Visitas Pastorais dos Comissários das Ordens Terceiras no século XVIII em Minas Gerais - DOI: 10.5752/P.2175-5841.2011v9n22p534 [Book Review]

Horizonte 9 (22):534-553 (2011)
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Tempo barroco: as Visitas Pastorais dos Comissários das Ordens Terceiras no século XVIII em Minas Gerais. (Baroque Time: pastoral visits of the comissioners of the third orders in Minas Gerais, Brazil, during the eighteenth century.). O presente artigo tem por objetivo analisar o aparato que marcava a entrada dos comissários das ordens terceiras em suas visitas às vilas, analisando também o modo como aconteciam essas visitas pastorais. As visitações dos comissários das Ordens Terceiras de Nossa Senhora do Carmo e de São Francisco eram ocasiões que mobilizavam os irmãos destas congregações tanto no tocante aos assuntos espirituais quanto à esfera temporal. No aspecto material, as visitas demandavam grandes despesas com a realização de solenidades e hospedagem dos comissários. A visitação tinha por objetivo central assegurar a manutenção do sentido de ordem e de hierarquia que fundava as fraternidades de irmãos terceiros. Deste modo os padres visitadores deviam inspecionar e nortear a vida administrativa destas congregações e a vida particular dos terceiros seculares para verificar a sua conformação aos preceitos da moral e da fé cristã e às regras das ordens terceiras, instruir e disciplinar aqueles irmãos que houvessem cometido algum delito, coibir práticas e comportamentos desviantes. A pompa barroca das diversas cerimônias que aconteciam durante o tempo da visita concorria para suscitar o sentido de ordem e hierarquia entre os irmãos terceiros. Palavras-chave: Ordens Terceiras; Visita Pastoral; Festa; Catolicismo; Barroco.This article aims to examine the apparatus that marked the entrance of the Third Orders’ Commissioners on their visits to the villages, also analyzing how these pastoral visits took place. The Visitations of those Commissioners of the Third Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and San Francisco happened to be special occasions for the brothers of these congregations to be both materially and spiritually revived. In the material aspect, such visits demanded great costs to cover the ceremonies and the Commissioners expenses. The main purpose of the Visitation was to ensure the maintenance of a sense of order and hierarchy that originally was on the foundation of the fraternity. Thus, the Visitors should inspect and guide the administrative life of these congregations and also to help the Fathers to conform their lives to the precepts of morality and Christian faith and to the rules of the Third Order. Such visits also had the purpose to educate and to discipline those brothers who had committed some delict, and to curb practices and deviant behaviors. The pomp of the Baroque ceremonies that took place during the time of those mentioned visits finally aimed to raise the sense of order and hierarchy among all the members of Third Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and San Francisco. Key words : Third Order; Pastoral Visit; Party; Catholicism; Baroque

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