A Quaresma e a Semana Santa em Braga

• Autor(a) principal: Ferreira, Rui
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34632/theologica.2018.25

The solemnities of Holy Week in Braga are nowadays affirmed as a decisive moment of collective life in the city. It is a fact that the memory of the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ would already be annually replicated, in more or less clear-sighted ways, since Christianity took root in the city. Its most relevant manifestations are the processions, recreations of the Christian public ceremonial, which reveal themselves as crucial moments. However, other relevant ceremonies subsist, especially those that are part of the so-called bracarian rite or the practices associated with the paschal celebration. With a time course that justifies a dedicated approach, these ceremonials reveal an essence that clearly goes beyond the limits of belief and is today within a clear cultural scope. However, the affirmation as the main tourist product, that is, generating a remarkable economic impact, is a recent conquest and observed a course begun in 1933. Although it is a set of practices and manifestations of religious scope, its actors do not embrace this universe, but approach all sectors of society.