The article seeks reflect about the cult of Saint They and Saint Efigênia, into the 18th century, like a from the factors of building of identities among segments from black people into the Brazil colonial. I defend the idea what the excitement the cult did breaks from a from the strategies from Church on conversion of Africans and yours descendants. However, the complexity of the process by diaspora from the cultures Africans in America gave to conversion another dimensions. On a resistance culture process, the populations of origin African reinterpreted the catholics codes, confering the cult dimensions another that if, on the one hand they demonstrated partly the efficiency of the project with the acceptability from the catholics symbols, for another to testify the lifetime from a relative to autonomy from the populations black conqueror half the struggles daily within of the slavery system.
cult of the saints; brotherhoods; identity; Catholicism; slavery.