Exhibition catalog "Eight relics, Eight Saints and many little things"

In the laboratory, as part of the reliquiarum project, relics and saints will be placed under observation.

There are no relics without saints, it's true!
Therefore, from the eight relics in the collection of the São Roque Museum, we will seek to promote devotions, their material perpetuity and their powers of intercession.
Of the eight saints (or, perhaps, a few more?) we want to show their lives, their hagiographies and the trajectory of the powers in building the personal sanctity of each of them.
It's not enough for us.
We need to widen 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, participate in pilgrimages, see touching and devotion rituals. In the middle there will be marching bands and animals, fogaças and wax candles.
The geographic scope will be Portugal and, there, chronologies will intersect.
However, attention will be focused on the sample under analysis, the relics.
As a result of the reliquiarum's detailed laboratory work, in this expository 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 Napoleon
Maria do Carmo Lino
Maria João Pacheco Ferreira
Miguel Lourenço
Teresa de Freitas Morna

Authorship of 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

INCLUSION
IPL/ESELx
Bianor Valente
Clarisse Nunes
Katia Sá
Mario Revas
Tiago Almeida

SCML
António Camões Gouveia (NOVA FCSH / MSR/DIC)
reliquiarum
Catarina França (Illustrator, collaborator
guest) 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 Manager
of the Activities and Training Center for the
Inclusion (CACI)
Pedro Rodrigues – Director and Psychologist
Sandra Pinto – Monitor and Room Manager
of the Activities and Training Center for the
Inclusion (CACI)
Registration and Edition: João Loy (Actor) Associação Coisa Feita
Pedro Santos (Photography and Sound) IPL/ESELx

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

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