Abstract
Between 1948 and 1964, on Amapá Federal Territory, the Catholic Church quickly amplified its institutional size, creating a lot of parochial communities, with fixed italian missionaries. Orthodoxly, they attempted cleaning laymen’s religious practices. In this article, we focus laymen’s struggle to defend their saints, even though priests had considered saints less important than sacraments. We also demonstrate that many times italian missionaries retreated in face of this struggle.
Keywords:
popular catholicism; romanization; Amazon.