Relics? The reliquiarum project - Volume 1

journey 1
4 | 5 – February 2022 - Museum of São Roque

The reliquiarum project, designed and under construction at the Museum of São Roque, has very clear objectives: to study and understand the universe of relics in its multiple actions and languages.
This is a multidisciplinary study that aims for plurality, as indicated by the word reliquiarum (in Latin, "of the relics"), thus surpassing the study of the physical element, the relic and the reliquary, with the intention of also reaching its immaterial content, such as devotions, memories, affections, and other manifestations and realities of a social and cultural nature.
From the collection of relics and reliquaries of the museum, a broad and problematizing inquiry will be established that allows continuity in other collections and national spaces that preserve relics and reliquaries.
It is therefore not surprising that, from its very first hour, small meetings have been thought of that allow experiencing, in an interpretative and dialogical way, new avenues of study on themes that inform and update these approaches.
This notebook is the first of a collection, to which others will follow, that reports some of the results of the first working session that provided a reflection on the importance of studying relics.

General Coordination: Maria Margarida Montenegro
Executive Coordination: Teresa de Freitas Morna
Coordination of the reliquiarum project: António Camões Gouveia

Text Authors: António Meira, Maria de Lurdes Correia Fernandes and Pierre-Antoine Fabre

Editing: Miguel Rodrigues Lourenço

Technical Support: Gonçalo de Carvalho Amaro João Miguel Simões Maria do Carmo Lino Maria João Pacheco Ferreira

Translation: Multilingual Europe
Graphic Design: Luis Chimeno Garrido

Year of publication: November, 2022
Publisher: Editorial Center | Directorate of Culture of SCML
ISBN: 9789899021686