The purpose of this article
is to understand the role of the
Catholic Church in face of the
Empire and of the First Republic.
Analyzing in what way organizational
structures – diocese – developed,
structures that had as proposition the
attachment to the institutional
macroregional model of the electoral
districts. The diocese, on their turn,
had as proposition to make
ecclesiastical influence feasible or,
whenever possible, the subregions
control beside exponential Brazilian
politicians and “coronéis†[colonels]
In the lines that follow, we
intend to discuss the criticism of the
republican tradition held by
Wenceslaus Escobar through the
publication of the book
“Apontamentos para a História da
Revolução Rio-grandense de 1893â€.
Therefore, it runs the way proposed
by Carlo Ginzburg, deciphering clues
and signs that help discover the
inflections of a time when the state
Rio Grande do Sul rulers were highly
centralized and exclusionary.
