Abstract

VELEZ-PEREZ, Luis-Felipe. Supplication, Invocation and Rituality: Public Litany in the Villa de la Candelaria de Medellín, 1779-1825. Hist. Soc. [online]. 2020, n.38, pp.11-45. ISSN 0121-8417.  https://doi.org/10.15446/hys.n38.77271.

This article analyzes the social and emotional function that public rogations had in the Villa de la Candelaria de Medellín between 1779 and 1825. It draws from some historiographical considerations, such as the lack of systematic and detailed research about this topic in the New Kingdom of Granada and specifically of Medellín, and the need for expanding the spectrum of understanding about the popular culture and religiosity in this town between the colonial period and the early years of the republic. The period corresponds to the years in which archive records show the highest number of rogations celebrated since the foundation of the Village in 1675 until its transformation into a city in the decade around 1830. Taking the concept of ritual, the objective is to understand the articulation between the festive atmosphere, the divinities called on and the local and external circumstances of the town. To serve this purpose, the text is divided into three sections that present the types of rogations made in the period. In addition to some tables distributed throughout the text, at the end, three graphics are shown which allow a better understanding of the rituals celebrated, the time when they took place, the reasons for them and the divinities that received the entreaties. This article concludes that rogations were essential for facing collective adversities and for revealing emotions in the face of diverse events. They were, therefore, celebrations true of a "functional religiosity".

Keywords : rogations; Villa de Medellín; ritual; supplication; events; celebration.

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