Santa María de Cervelló (o Socors): estratigrafía de una santa barcelonesa del Barroco
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The hagiographic construction is the stratigraphy of a dynamic memory, in continuous
transformation. In other words, the hagiographic construction allows analyzing the
continuous semantic changes that take place in the memory and the cult of the saints.
The present work deals with the "manufacture" of Santa María Socors by different
historical actors - religious order, nobility, royal power and, finally, municipal
government - who appropriated their figure and memory and supervised their
worship, which is why a constant semantic updating of the cult of the saint as a
consequence of the superposition of the different discourses. In particular, our
attention focuses on the construction in modern times of the civic cult of Santa María
Socors by the Barcelona authorities. The management and municipal control of the
body of the saint, in the framework of civic religion, allows the elaboration of a
patriotic rhetoric around the figure of the saint so that it becomes a symbol of
community and territorial cohesion