Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-01T18:12:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 dissertacao_jose_carlos.pdf: 1723480 bytes, checksum: e9a07259f3b968397cf26f22323d7e68 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-04-03 / The study of religiosity and of religion in the feast is crucial to the understanding of myth,ritual and symbols inserted in devotion and promise to the saint, taking as inspiration the focus point of the rituals, especially the ritual procession, or even touring runs through the twenty-first century, even at such desecration. The purpose of this research is to reflect on the shifting ritual, different expressions such as gestures, silence, clothing characterized, objects, banners and sounds that are moving the close relations between the pilgrim (devout and/or curious) and the saint. To make this reflection based we decided to depart from a field research for five days, along with visitors, devotees promisers, trying to gather free and spontaneous information, adding to the bibliography, dealing with myth, ritual and symbols used by the walker in the procession of St. Lucy. The objective is to point the name of the various expressions of religious feast of the Patron Saint; to emphasize the importance of the rites as itinerant religious phenomenon in a secularizing society, reflecting the open air rite from a close relationship between the believer and the divine; to understand syncretism and the notion of sacred, using the methodology of participant observation on the feast of St. Lucy in Mossoró (RN) / O estudo da religiosidade e da religião na festa é fundamental para a compreensão do mito, rito e os símbolos inseridos na devoção e na promessa ao santo, tendo como inspiração pontual o foco dos rituais, especialmente o rito processional, ou seja, o itinerante que ainda perpassa o século XXI, mesmo diante de tanta dessacralização. O propósito desta pesquisa é refletir no ritual itinerante, diferentes expressões como gestos, silêncio, vestimentas caracterizadas, objetos, bandeiras e sons que se encontram movimentando as relações de proximidade entre o romeiro (devoto e/ou curioso) e o santo. Para tornar esta reflexão fundamentada, decidimos partir de uma pesquisa de campo, durante cinco dias, junto aos frequentadores, devotos promesseiros, tentando coletar informações livres e espontâneas, agregando-a ao material bibliográfico que trata do mito, rito e símbolos utilizados pelo caminheiro na procissão de Santa Luzia. O nosso objetivo é apontar as diversas expressões de religiosidade na festa da Santa Padroeira; pontuar a importância dos ritos itinerantes como fenômeno religioso numa sociedade secularizada; refletir o rito ao ar livre a partir de uma relação próxima entre o fiel e o divino; entender o sincretismo e a noção de sagrado, usando a metodologia da observação-participante , na tentativa de garantir a identidade e práticas sociorreligiosas na festa de Santa Luzia em Mossoró (RN)

Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-01T18:12:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 crevio_adelino_rocha.pdf: 30150953 bytes, checksum: 3f1624076642523aabc7e5da2b82ab58 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-05-16 / The research aimed to analyze the relationship between the devotee and the holy Shrine of St. Severino Ramos in Paudalho-PE, seeking to identify the symbolic exchanges in manifestations of popular devotions. The foundation was built from the works of Pierre Bourdieu, Alberto Beckhauser, João de Deus Gois, Eduardo Hoornaert, Faustino Menezes and Renata Teixeira, Sylvana Brandão, among others. From the methodological point of view, it is considered that the path followed was a phenomenological approach using specialized bibliography of popular religiosity in studies to understand the concepts related to the topic, between devotion to the saints, shrines, religion and popular religion, Catholicism and sanctoral religious tourism. A descriptive exploratory survey was used to investigate the relationship of symbolic exchanges on promises, miracles and votive among devotees of San Severino Ramos, at the Shrine of St. Severino Ramos in Paudalho-PE, in the light of the notion that all search for the sacred has as starting point urgent human needs, as well as gratitude for such needs have been met. The work consists of three chapters with the first contextualizes them on devotion to the saints throughout history, addressing questions about the origin; devotion to the saints in Brazil; devotion to St. Severino Ramos and sanctuary that bears his name in Paudalho-PE. The second chapter covers the concepts related to the theme of religion and interfaces with the popular religion, popular religion and Catholicism sanctoral; popular religiosity and religious tourism. The third focuses on the religious manifestations and symbolic exchanges at the Shrine of St. Severino Ramos bringing the search results. From the analysis, we sought to understand the religious phenomenon that occurs in that area to subsequently submit final comments and proposals on the issue to thereby contribute to the study of the religiosity of the northeastern people and therefore collaborate to produce a knowledge of interdisciplinary nature of the field itself as epistemological Sciences of Religion. / A pesquisa teve como objetivo analisar a relação entre o devoto e o santo no Santuário de São Severino do Ramos, em Paudalho-PE, buscando identificar as trocas simbólicas nas manifestações de devoções populares. A fundamentação foi construída a partir das obras de Pierre Bourdieu, Alberto Beckhauser, João de Deus Gois, Eduardo Hoornaert, Faustino Teixeira e Renata Menezes, Sylvana Brandão, entre outros. Do ponto de vista metodológico, considera-se que o caminho seguido foi a abordagem fenomenológica utilizando bibliografia especializada nos estudos da religiosidade popular para compreender os conceitos relativos ao tema, entre a devoção aos santos, os santuários, religião e religiosidade popular, catolicismo santoral e turismo religioso. A pesquisa exploratória descritiva foi utilizada para investigar a relação das trocas simbólicas relativas à promessas, milagres e ex-votos entre os devotos de São Severino do Ramos, no Santuário de São Severino do Ramos, em Paudalho-PE, à luz da noção de que toda busca do sagrado tem como ponto de partida necessidades humanas inadiáveis, bem como a gratidão por tais necessidades terem sido atendidas. O trabalho é composto por três capítulos sendo que o primeiro deles contextualiza sobre a devoção aos santos no decorrer da história, abordando questões sobre a origem; a devoção aos santos no Brasil; a devoção a São Severino do Ramos e o santuário que leva seu nome em Paudalho-PE. O segundo capítulo traz os conceitos relativos ao tema entre religião e interfaces com a religiosidade popular; religiosidade popular e catolicismo santoral; religiosidade popular e turismo religioso. O terceiro aborda acerca das manifestações religiosas e trocas simbólicas no Santuário de São Severino do Ramos trazendo os resultados da pesquisa. A partir da análise, buscou-se compreender o fenômeno religioso que se dá naquela localidade para, posteriormente, apresentar as considerações finais e proposições sobre o tema para, desta forma, contribuir com o estudo sobre a religiosidade do povo nordestino e, por conseguinte, colaborar para a produção de um saber de caráter interdisciplinar, tão próprio do campo epistemológico das Ciências da Religião.

Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-01T18:12:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 antonio_inacio_pereira.pdf: 4178423 bytes, checksum: 5498b642726b625a4c2ce5d1de339350 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-09-08 / This abstract aims at describing the structure of the pilgrimages taking place to the sanctuary of São Severino do Ramos situated in the city of Paudalho in the diocese of Nazaré in Pernambuco, Brazil, and trying to understand their characteristics. It parts from the four districts that compose the diocese and accentuates the reasons and strategies used by the transportation contractors who perform these constant pilgrimages to the Santuário do Engenho Ramos. Pilgrimage being a universally known religious practice, the Santuário de São Severino answers to the necessity the pilgrims feel to go to certain hierophanic places in order to deepen their experience of the Holy. In the Northeast of Brazil, this sanctuary has considerable importance because of the thousands of devotees who visit it (yearly) and identify it as a place capable of conceding the blessings most necessary to human life through the mediation of São Severino. To reach the aim we have set ourselves, there were realized twenty semi-structured interviews with the transportation coordinators of the pilgrimage five in each of the four sectors of the diocese of Nazaré. To get more information about the phenomena of the pilgrimages in the vicinity of the old Engenho Ramos, we also interviewed another nineteen people who know facts about the relationship between the pilgrimages and the sanctuary of São Severino. From a theoretical point of view, this research sought dialogue with the contributions of Carlos Alberto Steil, Annette Dumoulin, Mircea Eliade and Aldo Natale Terrin, among others. This essay is divided into three chapters: the first one introduces the genesis of the sanctuary in question; the second brings out the result of the interviews realized in the four sectors of the diocese; and the third analyses some of the characteristics that are common to pilgrimages. The essay aims at being not only a contribution in the field of Religious Sciences, but also a compass that wants to give direction to the pastoral initiatives of the diocese of Nazaré where popular religiosity is concerned. / Este trabalho tem o objetivo de descrever a estruturação das romarias da Diocese de Nazaré ao Santuário de São Severino do Ramos, situado na cidade de Paudalho PE, tentando compreender as suas características, a partir dos quatro setores pastorais que compõem a Diocese de Nazaré, salientando as motivações e as estratégias utilizadas pelos fretantes que realizam as constantes romarias ao Santuário do Engenho Ramos. Sendo a romaria uma prática religiosa universalmente conhecida, o Santuário de São Severino corresponde a esta necessidade dos devotos em busca de aprofundarem suas experiências com o sagrado. No Nordeste do Brasil este santuário alcança uma importância considerável pelos muitos devotos que o visitam, identificando-o como um espaço capaz de conceder às benesses mais necessárias à vida humana por intermédio de São Severino. Para se alcançar o objetivo desta pesquisa foram realizadas vinte entrevistas semi-estruturadas com os fretantes de romarias, sendo cinco em cada um dos setores da Diocese. No intuito de obter maior conhecimento do fenômeno das romarias nas dependências de um antigo engenho foram entrevistadas, ainda outras 19 pessoas, conhecedoras de fatos relativos à relação romeiro- santuário de São Severino do Ramos. Do ponto de vista teórico essa pesquisa buscou dialogar com as contribuições de Carlos Alberto Steil, Annette Dumoulin, Mircea Eliade e Aldo Natale Terrin, entre outros. Este estudo está distribuído em três capítulos: o primeiro apresenta a gênese do santuário, o segundo o resultado das entrevistas nos setores diocesanos e o terceiro à luz dos teóricos supracitados descreve as características comuns às romarias. O trabalho ousa ser mais uma contribuição na área de Ciência da Religião, como também uma bússola que dê um norte às iniciativas pastorais da Diocese de Nazaré em relação à religiosidade popular.

Submitted by Biblioteca Central (biblioteca@unicap.br) on 2018-02-19T18:34:55Z No. of bitstreams: 1 ilka_maria_silva_oliveira.pdf: 2049105 bytes, checksum: 97bbc5eb00a5008152115c2a4ad80e9a (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-02-19T18:34:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ilka_maria_silva_oliveira.pdf: 2049105 bytes, checksum: 97bbc5eb00a5008152115c2a4ad80e9a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-11-20 / This dissertation discusses the social representation of the body in the promise rituals in the catholicism, characterized by the pluralism of the manifestations, present in the cultural and religious experience, resulting from the construction of meanings of the devotee relationship with the sacred. The participant's universe was defined in the three great religious celebrations, that happens in the urban perimeter of the city of Recife/PE and where concentrates a great number of followers, which were chosen in a random way and that they accepted to answer an interview of open questions, in order to bring the interviewees, to think and to talk about the importance of the body for the accomplishment of his promise ritual. This study is based in the Theory of the Social Representations and their theoretical of reference, for now, we apprehended the symbolic universe of speaking and of acting, classifying the social representations that go beyond the execution of the promise, through the speech of the devotee , explaining on the mechanisms that are used to understand the need to express with the body the devotion. Located in the field of the Sciences of the Religion, It has the intention of getting to do present an idea, through an object, which not always it is conscious for the individual. By the approach with the phenomenon of the payment of the promise, we noticed how they live their practices devocionais, as they aim at and they anchor them and how that contributes for the conservation of the 'habitus' in the Brazilian religious field. In the conclusion phase, we analyzed the explicit behaviors, linked by an intentional causal relationship, centered in the totality of the speech, with few generic subjects that represent the group. We built nested and systematized arguments established starting from the consensus interpretations and of the critic of the creative contradiction. We will present the transposition of the data, punctuating the relationships between the social representations and the symbolic elements that were mapped, as characteristic result of the research. / Discute-se na presente dissertação, a representação social do corpo nos rituais de promessa no catolicismo, caracterizada pelo pluralismo de manifestações presentes na experiência cultural e religiosa, resultantes da construção de significados da relação do sujeito devoto com o sagrado. O universo dos participantes foi definido nas três celebrações de grandes eventos religiosos, que se dá no perímetro urbano da cidade de Recife/PE e onde concentra um grande número de fiéis, os quais foram escolhidos de forma aleatória e que aceitassem responder a uma entrevista de perguntas abertas, para fazer o entrevistado pensar e falar sobre a importância do corpo para a realização do seu ritual de promessa. Este estudo está fundamentado na Teoria das Representações Sociais e seus teóricos de referência, apreendemos o universo simbólico do falar e do agir, categorizando as representações sociais que vão além do cumprimento da promessa, através das falas/entrevistas dos (as) devotos (as), esclarecendo sobre os mecanismos que são empregados para compreender a necessidade de expressar com o corpo a devoção. Situado no campo das Ciências da Religião, o trabalho tem a intenção de conseguir fazer presente uma ideia, por intermédio de um objeto, o que nem sempre é consciente pelo indivíduo. Pela aproximação com o fenômeno do pagamento da promessa, percebemos como vivenciam suas práticas devocionais, como objetivam e as ancoram e como isso contribui para a conservação da tradição no campo religioso brasileiro. Na fase de conclusão, analisamos os comportamentos explícitos e implícitos, ligados por uma relação causal intencional, centrada na totalidade do discurso, com poucos sujeitos genéricos que representam o grupo. Construímos argumentos hierarquizados e sistematizados estabelecidos a partir das interpretações de consenso e da crítica da contradição criativa. Apresentamos a transposição dos dados, pontuando as relações entre as representações sociais e os elementos simbólicos que foram mapeados, como resultado característico da pesquisa.

Dans un paysage religieux québécois qui s'est profondément transformé, même si l’on constate une désaffection des églises catholiques, certaines formes de dévotion restent importantes, en particulier la dévotion au Saint Frère André. Canonisé par le Pape Benoît XVI en octobre 2010, Saint Frère André est le premier Saint homme natif du Canada. Il est à l’origine de la construction de l’Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal, le plus grand Sanctuaire dédié à Saint Joseph au monde. Il est un personnage important au Québec. Selon les données du Sanctuaire, chaque année, deux millions de visiteurs se rendent à l'Oratoire. Ces visiteurs ont plusieurs profils. Ce sont soit des personnes dévotes venant de Montréal ou des environs, des touristes religieux ou des pèlerins. Cette thèse traite de la dévotion au Saint Frère André à l’Oratoire. L’objectif principal est de comprendre les expressions et pratiques de cette dévotion populaire ainsi que l'expérience vécue par les dévots dans ce lieu de pèlerinage, à l’aide d’une approche ethnographique combinée à une étude d’archives des billets d’intentions recueillis à l’Oratoire au cours de l’année 2010 et 2018. Les dix observations réalisées dans les cinq lieux de recueillement dédiés au Saint Frère André, les cinquante entrevues menées auprès de personnes dévotes et l’étude de mille billets d’intentions mettent en évidence la relation de confiance et d’amitié que les personnes entretiennent avec le Saint. Cette relation est entretenue par la perception de manifestations attribuées au divin, telles que des miracles de guérison, des apparitions et des visions qui, pour les dévots, attestent de l’existence d’un échange de biens de charité entre ciel et terre. Il ressort de cette thèse l’importance du rôle d’intercesseur de Saint Frère André dans les pratiques de dévotion ainsi que son rôle dans la mémoire collective québécoise comme en témoignent les relations historiques que bon nombre de familles ont développées avec le Saint. La prière est le lieu premier de la rencontre, le véhicule par lequel les dévots rencontrés communiquent avec Saint Frère André. Quant aux pratiques de dévotion, elles s’expriment sous de multiples formes : reliques, espaces de dévotions, statues, objets de piété, huile de Saint Joseph, images, culte, pèlerinages, etc. La dévotion populaire n’étant pas contrôlée par l’institution religieuse, elle donne libre cours aux expressions religieuses spontanées tant dans les rituels que dans l’écriture votive. / The religious landscape in Quebec has changed profoundly, even though the disaffection of the Catholic churches, some forms of devotion remain important, especially the devotion to Saint Brother André. Canonized by Pope Benedict XVI in October 2010, Saint Brother André is the first Canadian-born male Saint. He is responsible for the construction of Saint Joseph’s Oratory, the largest shrine dedicated to Saint Joseph in the world, and he is an important figure in Quebec. According to the Sanctuary’s data, every year, two million visitors visit the Oratory. These visitors have several profiles, they are either devout people from Montreal or the surrounding area, religious tourists, or pilgrims. This thesis deals with the devotion to Saint Brother André at the Saint Joseph Oratory of Mount Royal. The main objective is to understand the expressions and practices of this popular devotion as well as the experience lived by the devotees in this place of pilgrimage, using an ethnographic approach, which is based on a combined archival study of prayer intentions collected at the Oratory during the years 2010 and 2018. The ten observations made in the five places of prayer dedicated to Saint Brother André, the fifty interviews conducted with devotees and the study of about a hundred prayer intentions highlight the relationship of trust and friendship that people have with the Saint. This relationship is sustained by the perception of manifestations attributed to the divine, such as healing miracles, apparitions, and visions that, for the devotees, testify to the existence of an exchange of goods of charity between Heaven and Earth. This thesis shows the importance of the role of intercessor of Saint Brother André in the collective memory of Quebec, as evidenced by the historical relations that many families have developed with the Saint. Prayer is the first place of the encounter, the vehicle through which the devotees meet and communicate with Saint Brother André. As for devotional practices, they are expressed in many forms: relics, devotional spaces, statues, objects of piety, oil of Saint Joseph, images, worship, pilgrimages, etc. Since popular devotion is not controlled by the religious institution, it gives free rein to spontaneous religious expressions both in rituals and in votive writing.

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This dissertation asserts that women’s anonymity in seventeenth-century devotional texts functions as a performance to be understood rather than a mystery to be solved. Anonymity has long been framed as merely a protean form of authorship or a barrier to the recovery of a lost literary history. The archive frequently renders anonymity invisible or reveals anonymity at the moment of its undoing; however, this study of women’s anonymity contends that, although women applied anonymity to avoid the stigma of print, their anonymity functions less as a blind than as a frame to emphasize those traits they wished most to expose. In my first and second chapters, I demonstrate how the anonymous Eliza’s Babes (1652) and the nearly anonymous An Collins’s Divine Songs and Meditacion (1653) use the anonymous text to replace the signification of sick, infertile, and therefore volatile female bodies with an imitative production of devotion that constitutes the text as a divinely-restored, alternatively-productive body through which they relate to God and reader. Readers’ positive reception of this devotional re-signification of the body’s productivity countermands stereotypes readers hold against women writing, affirms the woman writer as faithful, and reincorporates both reader and writer in a corporate body of believers through their mutual participation in devotional practices. My third chapter affirms the perceived authority of anonymity’s corporate voice through the exploration of George Hickes’s retroactive attribution of several late seventeenth-century anonymous devotional texts to Susanna Hopton. I argue that the derivative nature of the anonymous devotional collections invests them with a corporate voice Hickes finds to be a valuable asset in his defense of Hopton’s devotional acumen. Drawing together scholarship on seventeenth-century relationality and intersubjectivity, readership, devotion, and women’s health, this study reconsiders the signification of women’s anonymity and their unoriginality as a tool that facilitates agentive reading and rehabilitates women’s claim to corporate belonging. / Thesis / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

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Le 22 juin 1845, une curieuse procession religieuse se met en branle dans les rues de Montréal. Une « foule immense » est présente pour accompagner à travers la ville le corps d’un homme exhumé des catacombes romaines. Transportés à Montréal, ses ossements étaient contenus dans une figure en cire représentant un soldat romain. Présumé mort pour sa foi, ce martyr fut porté à bout de bras au milieu d’encens et de cantiques, à travers les rues. Étonnamment, cette procession n’est pas un cas isolé. Entre 1830 et 1930, les restes de dizaines de présumés martyrs chrétiens extraits des catacombes romaines sont envoyés au Canada. À Halifax, Rimouski, Joliette, Toronto et Windsor, ils attirent les fidèles et les curieux. Adoptés comme de puissants intercesseurs, ces saints étrangers façonneront les croyances, les représentations et l’identité de plusieurs générations de catholiques. Autour de leurs reliques se développera tout un univers dévotionnel aux relations complexes et nombreuses avec toutes les sphères de la société. Ces reliques constituent une véritable fenêtre sur la société canadienne du XIXe siècle. Cette thèse contribue de manière importante à l’historiographie en explorant pour la première fois en profondeur le champ des dévotions ultramontaines au Canada. Elle étudie le déploiement du culte des martyrs romains et de leurs reliques dans l’Église canadienne et reconstitue l’essor de cette dévotion dans une perspective d’histoire culturelle. Au moyen de documents d’archives provenant des deux côtés de l’Atlantique, elle se questionne sur les manières par lesquelles les Canadiens découvrent, recherchent et s’approprient cette dévotion étrangère. En effet, l’engouement pour les reliques romaines est avant tout un phénomène transnational qui s’inscrit dans les bouleversements que connaît l’Église catholique au XIXe siècle, poussés notamment par le mouvement ultramontain. Cette thèse veut donc replacer la présence des reliques catacombaires au Canada dans son contexte global tout en se penchant sur les particularités canadiennes. Elle s’appuie sur une documentation importante et largement inédite provenant de plus d’une trentaine de centres d’archives. Grâce à ces documents, elle se penche sur les différentes facettes que prendra cette dévotion, que ce soit en ville ou à la campagne, chez les anglophones ou les francophones, ou dans des milieux à majorité catholiques ou protestants. Le premier chapitre révèle la fascination pour la Rome chrétienne chez les Canadiens du XIXe siècle et l’importance que revêtent les catacombes et leurs martyrs dans l’imaginaire des fidèles catholiques. Le second chapitre identifie quant à lui les nombreux réseaux unissant l’Église canadienne à Rome, et plus largement à l’Europe, qui ouvraient la porte à l’obtention et à l’expédition de reliques au Canada. Il permet d’inscrire cette dévotion dans un cadre plus large en la liant aux autres traces de cette piété ailleurs dans le monde. Il porte une attention particulière à la circulation des biens entre la péninsule italienne et l’Amérique du Nord en étudiant les corridors commerciaux par lesquels circulent les marchandises. Les trois chapitres suivants sont consacrés à la présentation, la réception et l’adoption des reliques catacombaires au Canada. Ils examinent le processus de fabrication des corps en cire dans lesquels sont insérés les reliques et la symbolique que revêtent ces gisants-reliquaires, puis considèrent la cérémonie religieuse marquant l’arrivée d’un nouveau martyr. Finalement, cette thèse explore les traces témoignant de la piété des fidèles : les patronages, les prières, les indulgences et les récits de miracles. Elle examine l’attachement, mais aussi l’opposition et les tensions provoquées par les reliques romaines au sein de la société. Cette recherche permet de démontrer l’influence des dévotions étrangères sur la vie spirituelle des Canadiens et les nombreux liens unissant la société canadienne à l’Europe. Elle témoigne également de changements importants dans l’univers dévotionnel du XIXe siècle. Mais elle met surtout en lumière les transformations profondes de la culture et des mentalités, particulièrement des croyances, des sentiments et de l’idée de la mort. Cette étude contribue à mieux comprendre le passé religieux de plusieurs générations de Canadiens en étudiant une dévotion aujourd’hui complètement oubliée. / On 22 June 1845, a curious religious procession took place in the streets of Montreal. A “huge crowd” gathered to accompany through the city the body of a man exhumed from the Roman catacombs. His bones had been shipped to Montreal and placed in a wax figure representing a Roman soldier. Presumed to have died for his faith, this martyr was carried through the streets at arm’s length amid incense and hymns. Surprisingly, this procession was not an isolated one. From 1830 to 1930, the remains of dozens of presumed Christian martyrs extracted from the Roman catacombs were sent to Canada. In Halifax, Rimouski, Joliette, Toronto, and Windsor, they attracted the faithful and the curious. Adopted as powerful intercessors, these foreign saints would shape the beliefs, representations, and identity of generations of Catholics. Around their relics, a whole devotional universe would develop and maintain various and complex relations with society. These relics provide us with a unique window into nineteenth-century Canadian society. This thesis makes a significant contribution to historiography by exploring for the first time the topic of ultramontane devotions in Canada. It studies the deployment of the cult of Roman martyrs and their relics in the Canadian Church and reconstitutes the development of this devotion from a cultural history perspective. Using archival documents found on both sides of the Atlantic, this thesis examines how Canadians discovered, sought, and adopted this foreign devotion. In reality, this infatuation for Roman relics is primarily a transnational phenomenon that is part of the profound changes that the Catholic Church experienced in the nineteenth century, driven in particular by the Ultramontane movement. Therefore, it seeks to situate the presence of relics from the catacombs in Canada in its global context while considering its Canadian particularities. It rests on a considerable number of novel sources drawn from more than thirty archival centers. With the help of these documents, it examines the different facets that this devotion had, whether in cities or the countryside, among English-speaking or French-speaking communities or in predominantly Catholic or Protestant environments. The first chapter reveals the fascination with Christian Rome among nineteenth-century Canadians and the importance that the catacombs and their martyrs had in the minds of the Catholic faithful. The second chapter identifies the many networks uniting the Canadian Church with Rome, and more broadly with Europe, that allowed the acquisition and shipping of relics to Canada. It replaces this devotion in a larger framework by linking it to other manifestations of this expression of piety elsewhere in the world. It pays particular attention to the exchange of goods between the Italian peninsula and North America by studying the commercial routes that allowed the circulation of relics. The remaining three chapters are devoted to the presentation, the reception, and the adoption of catacomb saints in Canada. They examine the art of molding wax bodies containing relics and the symbolism of these recumbent-reliquaries, before describing the religious ceremony organized to mark the arrival of a new martyr. Finally, this thesis explores the faithful’s various expressions of piety: patronages, prayers, indulgences, and claims of miracles. It examines the attachment but also the opposition and the tensions provoked by Roman relics within society. This research demonstrates the influence that foreign religious devotions held in the spiritual lives of Canadians and the many connections uniting Canadian society with Europe. It also testifies to significant changes in the devotional universe of the nineteenth century. But above all, it highlights the profound transformations of both culture and mentalities and particularly of beliefs, emotions, and the idea of death. This study contributes to a better understanding of the religious past of several generations of Canadians by studying a devotion that has now completely been forgotten.