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III – Andrequicé: Culture and Faith, Pilgrimage and Celebration

From the series Religious Pilgrimages in the Great Backlands Every year in the first half of August, pilgrims drawn by their faith come in from various different regions of the…

II – Santa da Pedra, Pilgrimage and Popular Devotion

From the series Religious Pilgrimages in the Great Backlands The tiny district of Santa da Pedra, in the county of São João do Pacuí, Northern Minas Gerais state, each year…

The Thorn in the Foot

The very well known Greco-Roman sculpture “Spinario”, a brilliant work by an anonymous artist, dated 1st Century AD, Hellenistic period, is of an adolescent boy wholly dedicated to the endeavor…

Os inconformistas saem de cena

O poeta convida o poeta para a ceia Lá estão eles: em torno da mesa pão e vinho guitarras e canções a cidade pequena a montanha e a lua nascendo…

Our Thanks to 2011.

The Church: the open wound

The church is a body. It pulsates with life, but it can be hurt and it can also bleed… Giovanni Cucci e Hans Zollner’s book The church and pedophilia, an…