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Diversampa is a unesp´s project that promotes guided tour around the São Paulo City Centre
Coordinated by Paulo Castagna, professor in Arts Institute of Unesp,
the project presents to the public historical, architectural, cultural and religious information
and how all of this is related with the music
This time, the topic is the Liberdade Neighbourhood
starting from the Doutor Rodrigo Silva Street and the Carlos Gomes Square
It´s full of esoteric symbols
During this tour, I won´t talk about the origin of Exoterism,
but I ll just say that it´s a religion with a much more private character than the Catholicism,
that has big temples,
and the Exoterism uses just small rooms since the 19th Century
after the exoteric circle, we will see in the right side,
a street that is passing by the Carlos Gomes Square,
we will see three different religious institutions:
The Church of the Alive God, The Church of the Primitive Alive God,
and the Sartorius Macrobiotic Centre, The oldest Macrobiotic Centre of Brazil,
that has a cure centre and a restaurant that can be visited from Monday to Saturday
In the end of this street in the right side
We will also see an Ubanda Centre beside a Kardecist Spiritualistic Centre
side by side
And, in the other side, in the Liberdade Square,
there is the Gallows Square
with the Church of Santa Cruz dos Enforcados (The Saint Cross of the Hanged Church)
that celebrates the memory of those ones that were convicted to death
Today is called the Liberdade Square (Freedom Square) after the end of slavery
The Boa Morte Church (The 'Good Death') had the duty of to prepare people for the passing away
So, the doctrine is
"you have to live your life in a good faith so you will have a good death time"
Unfortunately, there is poor information about this Church in São Paulo
In others states that host this same Boa Morte Fraternity, they have a lot of information
For exemple, in Bahia, where there is a very interesting religious syncretism
but here a lot of things is still to be discovered
The hypothesis that is most accept is that
the people that was convicted to death
used to come here to the Boa Morte Church to have their last prayer
before being lead to the Liberdade 'Freedom' Square,
in this case, literally, in a certain common sense,
where they would be executed
This church used to have also a cute nickname
the "Good News Church"
Despite the fact that it was the Good Death Church was also called the Good News Church
because of the location
From this hill, it presents a wise view
and used to be the first point to see the visitors that were arriving here in São Paulo,
specially the ones that was coming from the seaside
For this reason that bell used to be also the first one to ring in the town
when someone was coming from outside
That is the reason of the nickname Good News Church
Its open, so let´s take a visit
This is the Saint Lucy Church
where every Sunday, at 4pm, a mass in Latin is celebrated
a priest comes from Rio de Janeiro every week to take this duty
the ladies wear a veil
they sing a Roman psalm in Latin to follow the mass
so this is a place to know an old style mass
Untill the Vatican Council, the main altar was placed as a side altar
and the mass was different than today´s mass
the mass used to be all in Latin, a longer mass
the priest had his back to the people
the mass was more a sung mass
and the side altar
there was just one moment that the priest face the public,
that was the homily time
after that, the Vatican Council change this rituals
and the mass became like it is today
but there was some groups of traditionalist, like this one, that didn´t want to change
I take Health My name is Paulo
I said Hey-Ho!
I take Straight
My name is Athus I say Hey-Ho!
I take Friendship My name is Fernando
I say Hey-Ho!
I take a lot of Knowledge
My name is Gerson I said Hey-Ho!
I take Diversity My name is Rafael
I said Hey-Ho!
My name is Leonardo
I take too much Curiosity I said Hey-Ho!
My name is Gláucia I take Satisfaction
I said Hey-Ho!
My name is Alexandre
And as I ask for, I am taking a good weather
I said Hey-Ho!
My name is Rafael I take Friendship too
I said Hey-Ho!
I take Freedom
My name is Luís I said Hey-Ho!
My name is Alexandre I take Happiness
I said Hey-Ho!
My name is Cristônia
I take Optimism
I said Hey-Ho!
I take Peace ....
I said Hey-Ho!
My name is Mara
I take Plasure I said Hey-Ho!
My name is Pedro I take Knowledge
I said Hey-Ho!
My name is Emily and I also take Peace
I said Hey-Ho!
....
My name is Lúcia
I take Knowledge too
I said Hey-Ho!
My name is Roberto
I also take Knowledge ....
My name is Roberto
I said Hey-Ho!
I take Culture My name is Vânia
I said Hey-Ho!
I take Peace
My name is Oscar I said Hey-Ho