This article analyses the performance of the clergy as a means to adjust the behavior of people by celebrating matrimonies in Goiás city in the period between 1860-1920. The catholic principles had the purpose of establishing a ultramontanist catolicism with Tridentine aspect. Therefore, the ultramontanist clergy aimed at moralizing the private lives of its devoters and at the same time avoid their adhension to civil marriage, especially after the approval of the Decret n. 181, from January 24th 1890, that has established it in the country.
Catholicism; Marriage; Goiás city
