WORSHIP AND PROXIMITY - SAINT PATRON FEASTS OUT OF BRAZIL

Abstract

In this article, it is briefly highlighted the Saint patron feasts tradition out of the Brazilian lands that had influenced the cult service in Brazil. To discuss the patron feasts out of Brazil it was searched its proximity to some realized in the country. It is opted initially to show the feasts in Europe considering that continent as diffuser Center of the catholic religion. Nowadays, Europe integrates international routes in pilgrimages, feasts and cults terms. These, in much represent part of the religious heritage lived in Brazil. After the European approach, the Latin American continent became the focus of the studies, because it is considered the mainly colonized area by the European cultures where is still noticed the power of the catholic religious belief. It is worth to highlight that the existing bibliography about the thematic presents a theoretical diversity. Due to this diversity, the publications in the country about the colonial implantation and expansion period are sanctioned as well as published articles in the internet web. For that, it is prioritized only the methodological clippings used to analyze these feasts as routes, structures, organization and other detached elements.