La Virgen Auxiliadora, patrona de la Patagonia y la Virgen Misionera, patrona de la provincia de Río Negro: construcción identitaria y territorial en el espacio rionegrino;

Abstract

In this proposal will make a first approach to two Marian devotions in the Patagonian space: the Our Lady help of Christians and the Missionary Virgin, as representations and competing devotions that share and build identities and territoriality. The Auxiliadora Virgin, devotion brought from Italy to Argentina in 1875 and to Patagonia in 1879, by the daughters of Maria Auxiliadora and the Salesians of Don Bosco, became in 1934, with the creation of the first Diocese of the South, patron of Patagonian and Argentine agricultural. The Missionary Virgen, patron saint of the province of Río Negro, emerged as a popular devotion in 1978, based on a trip devotion missionary and consultation, parish by parish of the then Diocese of Río Negro covering the entire province This "popularity" is meant not only for democratic consultation of the bishop, but the role of the Virgin in the indigenous cultures, her mediation, "the favors in exchange for cultural services and goods were specialists for their own cult "and the miracles attributed to the images (Marzal, 1994: 165). Our purpose is to approach the analysis of these two Marian devotions which intersect different historical moments which change their mining and generate social identities, as well as spaces of inclusion but at the time of exclusion, they build territoriality and sacredness. We will try to analyze these material and symbolic in both devotions through iconography and representations.