Abstract

VIZUETE MARCILLO, Luis Esteban. Clergy and the Political Uses of the Cult to Our Lady of El Quinche at the Central-Northern Highland in Ecuador, 1883-1914. Anu.hist.reg.front. [online]. 2018, vol.23, n.2, pp.85-113. ISSN 0122-2066.  https://doi.org/10.18273/revanu.v23n2-2018003.

This article analyzes the political uses of Our Lady of Quinche’s image within the changes in the position of the clergy on the relationship State-Church. Thus, manuscripts and printed sources have been used to analyze the clergy’s discourse about this Virgin’s denomination and the practices that it encouraged, adjusted and strengthened around her cult according to the context and posture changes in the clergy’s position. This study is focused on the Central-Northern Highlands of Ecuador, an area which concentrated the majority of the Ecuadorian’s Clergy. As a result, there were two moments in the clergy’s position and the political uses of the Virgin’s cult. Firstly, an intransigent one, where the Virgin was banner of opposition to the separation of State-Church through books, visits to the Capital and pilgrimages. Then, a second instance, when faced with some liberal reforms, clergy supported church independence from state and encouraged devoted practices such as pilgrimages to the Quinche Sanctuary.

Keywords : Church; Catholicism; Politics; Clergy; 19th Century.

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