Paper short abstract:

This paper intends to analyse the role played by Jesuits in the spread of certain devotions (often base on the import of relics from Europe or other parts of the wold, for instance of India) and related iconographies in Colonial Brazil.

Paper long abstract:

This paper intends to analyse the role played by Jesuits in the spread of certain devotions (often base onthe import of relics from Europe or other parts of the wold, for instance of India) and related iconographies in Colonial Brazil. More precisely, I will analyze the relative role attributed by Jesuits in Brazil to general Catholic devotions and devotions, to devotions typical of Portuguese territories, to Jesuit devotions and finally to devotions highly influenced by local context, as Saint Thomas or Zome or that originated locally, as the cult fomented in particular by them to Anchieta or the Jesuit martyr Francisco Pinto, known locally as Aimanara.