DOS Images for the patriotic liturgy. Religious Representations for Independence neogrenadine

Abstract

In the present article we will examine the case of reuse of representations of the Catholic cult, which took place in the process of Independence of the Nuevo Reino de Granada. We will focus on the construction of “patriotic liturgies” for which religious practices, representations and figures of Catholic sainthood have been resignified. In order to establish a broad outline of this strategy, we will examine three examples: the use of Santa Librada and its fiesta to initiate public debates on “santa libertad” and the political self-determination in a process that was improvised in honor of the 20th of July 1810, today commemorated as the “ Scream for Independence”. Next we will deal with the case of the desecration of the royal arms and the granting of the title of Generalísimo de los ejércitos de la Independencia to the image of the Nazarene of the church of San Agustín. Finally, we will treat the construction of the figure of the heroine Policarpa Salavarrieta as a patriotic Sibyl. In these cases we will analyze the symbolic disjunction that enabled the political uses of religious images.