O espaço sagrado de Santa Cruz dos Milagres

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate the factors that led to the formation of the sacred space of the city of Santa Cruz dos Milagres in the state of Piauí, in the mid-nineteenth century, highlighting the means by which people participated and participates in this religious manifestation, legitimizing their practice. This paper focuses on the emergence of a sacred space that has managed to achieve significant local representation that concentrates thousands of faithful. Interested in observing the relationship between man and the sacred, identifying the space as something always in process capable of producing hierophanies. The Shrine of the Holy Cross of Miracles is a religion that has attractive landscape as a holy place, this being due to the religious practices embedded in it. The landscape changes with the arrival of people from the neighborhood, neighboring municipalities and other states. This is the golden age of man's encounter with the sacred.