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The chieira of the mordoma of Viana do Castelo is still alive and will return stronger and more eager to boast when the covid-19 pandemic passes, which this year left devotion to Senhora d ‘Agonia without pilgrimage.
“In each one of us the chieira [termo minhoto que significa orgulho e vaidade] stays alive The joy that moves us stays within us. For the year, or whenever possible, he will be reinforced and even more willing to demonstrate in the streets of Viana do Castelo, ”said the agency Lusa Sandra Araújo, 36.
This year, due to the outbreak of the new coronavirus, only August 20, dedicated to the patron saint of seafarers, will be celebrated in person, at the church of Nossa Senhora d’Agonia, but with limitations.
The rest of the five days of the Agonia Pilgrimage, between August 19 and 23, usually lived on the streets of the city, will be held in digital format, by radio, television and audiovisual and technological means, due to restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The stewardship parade, which opens the party program and which, in 2019, brought together more than 600 women from seven countries, dressed in all the party costumes of Viana do Castelo, is no exception.
As a dentist, Sandra Araújo has no doubts that the decision is correct, to stop the spread of the virus, but she still feels “immense sadness”. He has paraded since he was 17 years old with the suit he had “made to measure” and the family gold, a tradition that this year is interrupted.
“I know that I will not dress, nor ‘gild’ my chest or ears and that I will not walk the streets of my city, but I know that I will keep my scaffolding because there is no virus to destroy it,” he said, guaranteeing that on Ms. d ‘Agonia, on August 20, will wear “the regional shirt, the suit vest” and “gold”, “the ears with the Queen’s earrings” and the chest with “the beaded necklace”.
In Barcelona, Spain, 1,200 kilometers away, Catarina Azevedo exalts the same “passion” for clothing and gold in the city where she was born. This year, he intended to join the administration to celebrate his 40th birthday and fulfill the now-postponed “dream” of parading in his own outfit, ordered several months ago.
“I asked for a copy of a costume that is exhibited at the Museu de Viana and that is my favorite. It is not an investment that is made lightly, especially if something absolutely artisan is made and all the requirements of tradition are met, ”he explained.
The costume is assumed as a traditional symbol of the region, in its various forms, depending on the occasion and the status of the woman. In linen and with several characteristic colors, where red and black stand out, it was used until more than 120 years ago by girls from the towns of the city of Viana do Castelo.
Living in Barcelona for 17 years, the human resources consultant began participating in the children’s cars that are part of the ethnographic procession of the festivities.
From the age of 15, Catarina Azevedo began to parade “more consciously and voluntarily”, first with the clothes borrowed by her friends and then with the events of the folk groups of which she was part.
“I have always been an ardent supporter of the entire party program. Even from a distance, I closely follow the competition for the preparation of the official poster and I have a large bibliography dedicated to parties, costumes, the museum, traditional gold. When they ask me what my religion is, I always answer: it’s the Festas d’Agonia, ”he shot.
At the age of 76, Rosa Caetano “never” thought that the parties in her city could be canceled.
“I am very sad. I never thought about my life, as I get older, without feeling the holidays. I was full of ideas and dreams for this year and suddenly those dreams are gone. It took me 64 years to participate with the folk groups and in I lost count of the stewardship parade, ”said the former seamstress.
Rosa Caetano’s collection of traditional costumes has around fifty copies. Some ordered to do, others made by his own hands, embroidered with glass, as he likes so much. Every year they lend or lease them to the different numbers of the Festas d’Agonia or to other pilgrimages in the parishes of the municipality.
The clothes of mordoma, ‘domingar’ or lavradeira are some of the specimens of the “treasure” that Rosa Caetano keeps, all “duly hung” in the cabinets that she assigned for this purpose. This year, for the first time, they will not go weeks before the pilgrimage to be transmitted and “shine” on the bodies of the mordomas.
“This year they are kept in the closet, but I hope that next year they will be used by the Viana do Castelo mordomas, who will take to the streets with more enthusiasm, in all their splendor,” he said.
The stewardship parade is the moment when the different costumes from the parishes of Viana meet and immediately show the city.
An increasingly ingrained tradition among the young men and women of Viana do Castelo and that brings together several generations, in a unique and colorful image of the reds, greens and yellows of the typical and bright costumes of the different parishes.
There is also no shortage of more sober wedding dresses, in black. In this issue, some of the women even carry dozens of kilos of gold, gathering the pieces of families and friends in a single chest, symbolizing wheezing and once the financial power of families.
Globally, according to a report by the AFP news agency, the covid-19 pandemic has already claimed more than 283,000 deaths and infected more than 4.1 million people in 195 countries and territories.
In Portugal, 1,144 people out of 27,679 confirmed as infected died, and there are 2,549 cases recovered, according to the Directorate General of Health.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late December in Wuhan, a city in central China.
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