Comissariado do Paraná: início das missões evangelizadoras dos Frades Carmelitas na cidade de Paranavaí, baseado no livro História e Memórias de Paranavaí

Abstract

The aim of this study is the achievement of an analytic-theorical research of how come the Carmelíte Friars from Germanis Superioris province has begun its missionary lifetime work in Brasil, specifically in the south area of the country, when this organization sent Brother Ulrico Goevert who has begun the Commissariat in Paranavaí, State of Paraná. Besides that, this work tries to achieve an understanding of the manners this evangelical mission influenced in the formation of Paranavaí city. In his relatory to the German people in 1957, named Paranavaí’s History and Memories, Brother Ulrico, tells us how the first years of mission in his new church were, the difficulties faced, happiness and hope in the flowering of the mission, as well as, the growing of faith among the native people. Trying to notice how the formation of this city happens through a point of view, mostly during the population and de development period in this region, mainly because of the coffee economy. This work has also the aim of observing, with partial beliefs, the social-economical and cultural formation of Paranavaí around religiosity. It has been supported by theoretical writes like Mumford, by the concept of the Robert Moses Pechman and M. Stella Brwsciani’s city (who builds up a study in the appearance of cities, by Dennison de Oliveira, who portrait the population from the north of Paraná based on the coffee plantation, as well as the development ideas from the Getúlio Vargas’ last period of government and, manly, Juscelino Kubistchek’s government by Boris Fausto.