A reforma católica em Mariana e o discurso ultramontano de Dom Viçoso (1844-1875)

Abstract

This work’s objective is to analyze the Catholic Church’s wing denominated ultramontane or romanized in the figure of Don Viçoso, bishop of Mariana,as well as his discourse and project of society for the XIX century. The chronological cut of this work goes through 1844, year that Dom Viçoso took on the bishopric in Mariana, and stops in 10 1875, his death year and end of the Religious Question. Thus, I will treat the Religious Question not only as a conflict between masons and catholics that shook the decade of 70 in the century of XIX, but as a wider movement, since this was present from the first part of that century. Through the reading of the newspapers O Bom Ladrão and Selecta Catholica we can realize that this bishop longed to modify moral and customs of the population with the foundation of press in Mariana. Thereby, it was created during his bishopric, a real “editorial park” of newspapers preaching tridentine ideals with a fortnight periodicity, besides books defending the end of black slavery, considered for this bishop as a “stain” in Brazilian society which should be purged. Finally, we can conclude that, Dom Viçoso had a project of modernity covering all the population and used the press to disclose it.