Fátima: a narrative event. Language and experience

• Autor(a) principal: Martins, António Manuel Alves
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• 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/ephata.2020.6781

The adventure of believing lives off the re-reading of those founding texts that have codified in language an original experience that becomes archetypal of believe. Experience, narrative, language are structuring terms of our reflection that imply each other. The founding experience of Fátima, lived by the three seers in 1917, would be codified in the text Memoirs by Sister Lúcia, 20 years later. This text is a (re)telling of the same experience in new existential and cultural contexts. Does Fátima configure itself, then, as a hermeneutic experience, as a narrative that offers itself to new interpretations, in a circularity between founding event and new existential appropriations? Our work is structured into four topics. In the first, we specify the scope of the bibliographic corpus that constitutes the object of our study: a total of 16 works published between 2015 and 2017, which includes 9 books and six issues of the magazine published by the Sanctuary, Fátima XXI, valuing, above all, the articles of the thematic ones. In the plurality of publications emerges a return to the founding narrative of the Shepherds’ experience, and consequent valuation of their anthropological dimension (second topic). This founding narrative is open to new interpretations and existential narratives (third topic). Whether in its founding experience or in its existential translation by the pilgrims, the Fátima narrative has a corporeal inscription: it is a passio corporis / passion of the body (fourth topic).