Mestre em Latim, teólogo e jesuíta expulso da Companhia

expressões de um clero transatlântico na trajetória do capelão Agostinho de Mattos — Vila Rica, século XVIII

Abstract

This article seeks to explore the trajectory of Father Agostinho de Mattos, a Jesuit expelled from the Society who arrived in Minas Gerais in the 18th century. From a social history perspective, as well as Italian microhistory, we seek to investigate the relationship and dual influence between the chaplain's training and the activities he carried out in Vila Rica through his transatlantic trajectory between Portugal and Brazil. It is worth highlighting the status of clergy in the colonial period, the resizing of Catholicism in the Portuguese Empire, and the characterization of a context in which the chaplaincy took place in a chapel built and administered by a center of governance, the Vila Rica City Council. It is argued, therefore, that the status acquired in the Company provided him with the tools necessary for notability in the diocesan clergy and provision in the offices related to it, highlighting the transatlantic perception as a juxtaposition between the priest's training, the meaning of this for his time, the assimilations of local politics, and the production of new forms of sociability.