Escrava Anastacia
Escrava Anastacia (German slave Anastacia ) is a saint who is venerated in the popular beliefs of the Brazilian lower class, but is not recognized by the Catholic Church .
In Brazil, the person as Santa Anastácia is still very popular . The statements of the various traditions about Escrava Anastacia are contradicting. Some traditions claim that she was born in Africa, enslaved there, and then sold to Brazil. Other traditions claim that she was born in Brazil, while historians such as Guilherme Schubert from the Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro deny her existence.
iconography
The myths about Escrava Anastacia have in common that she had to wear a punishment mask ( Máscara de flandres ) because she resisted its owner. A drawing of an arbitrary slave with a mouth mask by the French author Jacques Arago from the 19th century became a symbol for Anastacia. Images of today's prayer rooms show small dolls' heads made of wood or plastic and pictures of saints , votive offerings are deposited.
Web links
- John Burdick (1998): Blessed Anastacia: Women, Race, and Popular Christianity in Brazil , New York, Routledge. ISBN 0-415-91260-1
- Escrava Anastacia (mini-series, 1990) in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Schuma Schumaher : Dicionário mulheres do Brasil. De 1500 até a atualidade - Biográfico e ilustrado . Zahar, 2000, ISBN 978-85-378-0215-1 . (2nd edition 2001: digitized in academia.edu ).