O marco divino na santificação de Romana

Abstract

The construction of a saint brings into play a set of factors and hypotheses to be tested throughout the process that involves from the character himself to the individuals or institutions capable of granting the sacred title. There are a variety of situations that can occur in the sanctification process considering the most varied factors. Romana was a young captive who became a martyr when she learned about the precepts of the Catholic Church and decided to keep her chastity. In order to know and understand the history of Saint Romana, I collected a collection of narratives about her life story, her miracles and a lot of data on the confirmation of her sacredness from a bibliographic survey and field research with residents of the community of São João das Almas and other locations in the municipality of Meruoca CE. Qualitative research was presented as the most adequate to embody this ethnography that was developed, in large part, in what should be called“floating observation, given the pandemic moment we are experiencing. The identification of the divine landmark of Romana's sanctification process constitutes one of the main objectives of this work. We found that Romana's sanctification process presents a set of symbolic elements of strong religious appeal that, in the eyes of the community, is satisfactory for the constitution of the martyr as a saint.