| Sumario: | The presence of Catholicism in Brazil during the colonial period was strategic. This was one of the important factors in the process of occupation of some territories of Brazil, is important to know the products of this cultural relationship, to better understand and interpret our history. This article seeks to understand some meanings of the bicentennial Our Lady of Navegantes’s Feast of São José do Norte, considered the oldest party with this evocation of Brazil. The Rio Grande do Sul state had the occupation considered late compared with other regions of the colony. Açorianos immigrants in the mid-eighteenth century, were housed near from São José do Norte and other regions with a mission to occupy and draw their livelihood from the land and waters of this southern peninsula. Probably these portuguese roots have left a strong legacy of religiosity, mainly expressed in the devotion to Our Lady of the Navigators, worshiped at the site since 1811 until today. It can be said that the Our Lady of Navegantes’s Feast of São José do Norte, by its aspects related to the place, such as working techniques linked to primary activities, where agriculture and fisheries, provide an "intimacy" with the natural elements, and a sense of gratitude for fertility or not these. Subsistence linked to the soil and water, traditional activities are gifts, so maybe devotion to Navegantes is intense and ceaseless there 204 years.
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