Exhibition Catalog "Eight Relics, Eight Saints, and Many Little Things" - Volume 3

In the laboratory, as part of the reliquiarum project, the relics and saints will be observed.

There are no relics without saints, it's true!
Therefore, from the eight relics in the collection of the Museum of São Roque, we will seek to promote the devotions, their material perpetuity, and their powers of intercession.
From the eight saints (or perhaps a few more?), we will want to show their lives, their hagiographies, and the journey of powers in the construction of each one's personal holiness.
That's not enough for us.
We need to broaden the circle to explain.
We need a few more things!
Eight relics, eight saints, but many images, many documents, reinforced by cakes, added with small objects and accompanied by gestures, ...
We will have to attend processions, join pilgrimages, see rituals of touch and devotion. In between, there will be philharmonic bands and animals, fogaças and wax candles.
The geographical scope will be Portugal, and within it, the timelines will intersect.
But the focus will be on the sample under analysis, the relics.
As a result of the meticulous laboratory work of reliquiarum, in this exhibition essay we will show the relics deeply rooted in the cultures of the territory and perceive them as components of the landscape.

General Coordination: Maria Margarida Montenegro
Executive Coordination: Teresa de Freitas Morna

Coordination of the reliquiarum project: António Camões Gouveia (NOVA FCSH)
Scientific Coordination: reliquiarum team
António Camões Gouveia
Carlota Cyrne Manoel
Gonçalo de Carvalho Amaro
João Miguel Simões
Maria Eduarda Napoleão
Maria do Carmo Lino
Maria João Pacheco Ferreira
Miguel Lourenço
Teresa de Freitas Morna

Authorship of the Texts / Texts
Gonçalo de Carvalho Amaro (SCML, NOVA/IHC)

summaries
João Miguel Simões (SCML, UL/ARTIS) relics
Paula Almeida Mendes (UP/CITCEM) biography,
hagiography, canonization, and cult

INCLUSIO
IPL/ESELx
Bianor Valente
Clarisse Nunes
Katia Sá
Mário Relvas
Tiago Almeida

SCML
António Camões Gouveia (NOVA FCSH / MSR/DIC)
reliquiarum
Catarina França (Illustrator, invited collaborator)
Editorial Center/DIC/SCML
Patrícia Lamas (SPDC/DIC/SCML)

Institute of the Immaculate for People with Special Needs
Joana Conceição – Occupational Therapist
Mariana Penisga – Occupational Therapist
Natália Tenreiro – Monitor and Room Responsible
of the Activities and Empowerment Center for
Inclusion (CACI)
Pedro Rodrigues – Director and Psychologist
Sandra Pinto – Monitor and Room Responsible
of the Activities and Empowerment Center for
Inclusion (CACI)
Registration and Editing: João Loy (Actor) Coisa Feita Association
Pedro Santos (Photography and Sound) IPL/ESELx

Translation: Multilingual Europe
Graphic Design: Luis Chimeno Garrido
Image Treatment: José Domingues

Year of Publication: May, 2023
Publisher: SCML, Museum of São Roque
ISBN: 9789899151406