CÍCERO ROMÃO BATISTA: DA CANONIZAÇÃO POPULAR À CANONIZAÇÃO OFICIAL

Abstract

In this dissertation, we discuss Cícero Romão Batista: from popular canonization to official canonization, and his main objective is to analyze internal and external conflicts with Catholicism that contextualized both the rupture of the Catholic Church with the priest and the recent reconciliation (2015) Towards him, envisaging a possible canonization. The role of the pilgrimages in Juazeiro do Norte stands out in this context, one of the indicators that converges towards a probable official canonization. This research is based on biographical and documentary sources in archives of the Center for Psychology of Religion in Juazeiro do Norte, and also in several duly cited authors. This work is composed of the identification and history of Padre Cícero Romão Batista, including the main characters without whom his story would not be the same. It then demonstrates the reasons both for the rupture of the Church, through its local representative in the past, and for reconciliation, a current cause made effective in 2015, and the possible canonization in the future. It is understood that reconciliation is the first step towards the canonization, since this is the opportunity to open the process for this purpose, following all the steps required and duly proven to be countersigned and come to fruition.