Passos de Rua: cenários religiosos urbanos em Tiradentes e São João Del Rey (MG)

Abstract

The objetc of research is the workshiped Passos de Rua that represent the Passion of Christ and have their own chapels implanted in the urban mesh of the first towns of the Minas colonial. We studied the Passos de Rua of the neighboring towns of Tiradentes and São João del Rei, which were founded by the respective religious Irmandade of Senhor dos Passos in the XVIII century. They were selected for this investigation bacause they posses a wealth of detail in their architectural and artistic representations; be implanteted in privileged places in the urban environment and mainly because they uniterrupted devotion, since its foundation to the present time. Considered invisible elements for most of the year, since they are used during the Lent and holy period, especially in the procession of Via Crucis, Domingos dos Passos and Encontro, in this research we uncover them. We analyze the Passos de Rua in its complex tangible and intagible characteristics, presenting a comparative relation of two contexts that evolved in a differentiated. Tiradentes with its tradition preserved from the influence of tourism and São João del Rey with its religious traditions and rituals regionally maintained. These issues reveal their importance as cultural heritage and its use and conservation value. We study primarily how to understand, protecting and preserving this value material and immaterial patrimony, considering the dynamics of its transformations in recent times. As results we hope to valeu during the research this form of devotion very little studied in Brazil, we also intend to establish reflections on its permanence and forms of protection.