TWO MARYS, ONE FAITH:

DEVOTION TO OUR LADY OF CONCEPTION AND URBAN AND CULTURAL REVERBERATIONS IN MARECHAL DEODORO, ALAGOAS

Abstract

Early Christians were the first to venerate Mary, testifying to her through Scriptures and sacred art in the early centuries of the Church. In local experience, Marian devotion has been recorded since the foundation of Marechal Deodoro (1591), consecrating the cult to the figure of Mary as the Patroness of the municipality that took sides and developed based on the strong religious appeal. The problem resulting is the traditional practice threatened by distinct interferences in the devotion to the altar image (in polychrome wood) and to the processional saint (made of rock). Thus, the objective of this study is to understand the relationships, impacts and (dis)configurations in time and space, considering the cultural, religious and affective heritage of devotion to Our Lady of the Conception. To develop this work, studies involving everything from Marian dogmas to local experiences were taken as a basis, through the relationship of faith and individual and community experience around the two imaginaries.