Memória e sacralização de Dom Fernando Gomes dos Santos: O “Arcebispo da Providência”

• Ano de defesa: 2011
• Autor(a) principal: Borges, Lindsay
• Orientador(a): Salomon, Marlon Jeison
• Banca de defesa: Salomon, Marlon Jeison, Martins , Estevão de Rezende, Quadros, Eduardo Gusmão de, Arrais, Cristiano Pereira Alencar, Sandes, Noé Freire
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Goiás
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-graduação em Historia (FH)
• Departamento: Faculdade de História - FH (RG)
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Memória; Modelo; Representação; Revista da Arquidiocese; Arquidiocese de Goiânia
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Memory; Model; Representation; Journal of the Archdiocese; Archdiocese of Goiânia
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CIENCIAS HUMANAS::HISTORIA
• Link de acesso: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/5025

This study investigates the process by which Don Fernando Gomes dos Santos, the first Archbishop of Goiânia (1957-1985), was represented - by the means of communication of the archdiocese, particularly by the Journal of the Archdiocese - as sent by God to act in this Region in the period when the church faced, in Goiás and Brazil, complex challenges. Studies indicate that the Archbishop, imbued with his mission, sought to become a model of religious who devoted his life to the Church‟s cause, besides concerning about how he would be remembered by archiving his memory and also the archdiocese‟s one. From this perspective, the group formed around the Archbishop has operated a selection of aspects and stages of the life of the prelate, considered significant, seeking to represent him as a Christian model capable of facing the challenges brought to the Church in that period, projecting his memory to continue guiding the actions of the archdiocese in the future. This effort has basis on the archbishop's actions since he seemed to take up the task of making of Goiás a model of church in Brazil, signaling through words and deed that goal. By building these representations, and designing the memory of Don Fernando, the group aimed at defending the model of Church adopted by the prelate, against the social sectors and also to groups who fought, within the institution, his pastoral line or did not accept its consequences. This process has been in force during the management of the archbishop and more than a decade after his death, having as special moments for this discursive construction the events in honor of him, recorded in the Journal of the Archdiocese. However, the work of continued memory during the administration of his successor was stopped when the current Archbishop of Goiânia took up office, giving rise to a dispute of memory during the centenary of Don Fernando‟s birth in 2010.