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LARGOS, CORETOS E PRAÇAS DE BELÉM - Monumenta

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Largos de Festas, Suplícios e Execuções<br />

56<br />

Largos for Festivals, Floggings and Executions<br />

índios e brancos se uniam<br />

para vivenciar, num<br />

momento fora do trabalho<br />

cotidiano e dos olhos<br />

vigilantes da Coroa, a<br />

alegria, a música, os<br />

símbolos de múltiplas<br />

leituras, a distribuição de<br />

comidas trabalhosas e,<br />

principalmente, um momento<br />

de relativização da ordem<br />

estabelecida, simbolizado<br />

pelas fantasias e pelos<br />

acontecimentos das festas.<br />

Talvez por isso o festejar<br />

colonial tenha sido<br />

constante, a ponto de os<br />

folguedos incorporarem-se à<br />

cultura brasileira como<br />

linguagem favorita, para a<br />

qual se traduzem os reais<br />

valores do povo.<br />

Acomunidade residente no<br />

início da Feliz Lusitânia só<br />

tinha uma festa religiosa, sem<br />

nenhuma parte profana, em<br />

homenagem a Nossa Senhora<br />

da Graça, que consistia de<br />

novenas e ladainhas durante<br />

nove dias de maio, em frente à<br />

pequena ermida existente,<br />

encerrando-se com uma<br />

rasoura que circulava o Largo<br />

da Matriz. Esse largo, que se<br />

chama hoje Praça Dom Frei<br />

Caetano Brandão, abriga a<br />

and from the vigilant eyes of<br />

the Crown, to enjoy the<br />

cheerfulness, the music, the<br />

many-layered symbols, the<br />

elaborate dishes of the local<br />

cuisine and, most of all, the<br />

moments when the<br />

established order was<br />

rendered more relative, as<br />

symbolized by the costumes<br />

and events that took place<br />

during the celebrations. That<br />

may be the reason why,<br />

during colonial times, there<br />

were so many festivities, that<br />

which were incorporated into<br />

Brazilian culture as a<br />

privileged language, into<br />

which the true values of the<br />

people were translated.<br />

In the early years, only<br />

one religious festival was<br />

celebrated by the Happy<br />

Lusitania community, with no<br />

profane elements, in homage<br />

of Our Lady of Grace, and<br />

consisting of nine days of<br />

novenae and litanies, that took<br />

place during the month of<br />

May, in front of the small<br />

chapel then existing, and<br />

ending with a procession<br />

circling the Largo da Matriz.<br />

This largo, now called Frei<br />

Caetano Brandão Square,<br />

houses Belém’s Cathedral, and

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