ÿþ1 00:00:35:02 00:00:40:04 My father, he had a very serious cardiac problem in 1989. 2 00:00:40:19 00:00:43:11 In the day before the Cirio, in the morning, 3 00:00:43:21 00:00:47:07 me and my brother, and the Dr. Leal who was his cardiologist, 4 00:00:47:10 00:00:49:22 spoke he was very bad, 5 00:00:50:04 00:00:52:04 that maybe he maybe wouldn't arrive at noon. 6 00:00:53:04 00:00:55:04 I felt bad, I fainted& 7 00:00:55:07 00:00:57:14 When I woke up, came the pilgrimage, 8 00:00:57:21 00:01:00:19 which has all year, the Holy went passing and I ran. 9 00:01:02:24 00:01:05:07 The Holy stopped in front of me and I asked to her 10 00:01:05:07 00:01:07:07 to make my father live a little more with me. 11 00:01:07:15 00:01:10:16 It was, perhaps, in 8 or October 9, 1989. 12 00:01:11:00 00:01:13:13 He died days June 7, 1990 13 00:01:14:17 00:01:16:17 Has many thanks that I received her... 14 00:01:17:05 00:01:19:05 It's not possible enumerate all. 15 00:01:39:15 00:01:41:15 At the time of composition I'm there, I organize it all. 16 00:01:41:21 00:01:43:21 At the time of burning fires everyone joins. 17 00:01:44:02 00:01:47:03 Everyone joins in time to make the tribute. 18 00:01:47:15 00:01:49:21 It's many emotion when we see the Holy. 19 00:01:49:21 00:01:53:05 Including, when I speak, I get goose bumps, of see that. 20 00:01:53:09 00:01:56:02 And I cry. When the Holy pass, give me that thing that... 21 00:01:56:02 00:02:00:01 already I fainted of be in the middle of the fires burning, that emotion, 22 00:02:00:02 00:02:04:13 asking for health, peace for all of us, is no? 23 00:02:04:20 00:02:06:20 I already asked many thanks 24 00:02:06:24 00:02:10:10 Health of my mother, of my son. 25 00:02:10:12 00:02:13:16 I'm very devout, very, of Our Lady of Nazareth. 26 00:02:16:02 00:02:21:02 The day that we get our house, I'll make a lot of images 27 00:02:21:03 00:02:25:03 to give to those who do not have the image of Nazareth. 28 00:02:25:04 00:02:28:17 Have many people that... is difficult, have a very low purchasing power, 29 00:02:28:17 00:02:31:11 then there can not buy, they ask me: 30 00:02:31:17 00:02:35:19 "Márcio, could you give me a image to I make a donate ..." 31 00:02:35:19 00:02:39:20  for a person ,  for my aunt ,  for my mother ? 32 00:02:39:20 00:02:42:13 "Take it easy", I say. 33 00:02:42:15 00:02:44:15 I take the image, I make the image, 34 00:02:45:13 00:02:50:01 I give to her, to her donate to other person, or give to her mother. 35 00:02:50:06 00:02:53:05 It is so. A person comes with me, I'm not of denying, no. 36 00:02:53:07 00:02:57:23 Anyone arrives with me, if will be to give to someone who has not, I give. 37 00:03:00:18 00:03:06:14 As soon as I married, we lived in a humble house of wood, 38 00:03:07:11 00:03:13:00 and I said: "oh, my Our Lady, in the day that I attain my house, more or less, 39 00:03:13:00 00:03:16:13 I'll pay a promise bringing a home of wax." 40 00:03:16:14 00:03:19:10 We started building our house. 41 00:03:19:10 00:03:24:04 Then when my little house was all brick, already very cute, 42 00:03:24:04 00:03:26:04 so I paid my promise, right? 43 00:03:26:04 00:03:29:06 I think it was a grace that I reached. 44 00:03:58:04 00:04:02:06 I sewed many dresses for pretty brides, 45 00:04:02:06 00:04:06:02 teens, Miss, all ... 46 00:04:06:03 00:04:08:03 Fantasies, everything ... 47 00:04:08:14 00:04:12:07 I hadn't as much pleasure as do the mantle, 48 00:04:12:07 00:04:17:03 which is a little bit, and that gave me so much importance for this. 49 00:04:17:13 00:04:23:24 When you see all those people with the faith around the Carriage, 50 00:04:23:24 00:04:27:13 and I'm knowing that my work makes part of this, 51 00:04:27:14 00:04:29:14 it's really very rewarding. 52 00:04:30:11 00:04:32:17 We stay goose bumps ... 53 00:04:32:17 00:04:36:00 We stayed goose bumps when we see these things. 54 00:04:36:07 00:04:38:11 Then the heart beats faster ... 55 00:04:38:15 00:04:40:15 but it is so ... 56 00:04:43:07 00:04:46:00 Like all good person from Pará, 57 00:04:46:00 00:04:48:19 yet more born in Belém do Pará, 58 00:04:48:20 00:04:52:06 we have to have an experience of Cirio of Nazareth. 59 00:04:52:12 00:04:56:21 I have had very strong maybe because I was born in the Avenue Joseph Malcher, 60 00:04:56:21 00:04:58:12 two blocks from the Basilica. 61 00:04:58:12 00:05:01:08 And I've always been delighted with the Cirio of Nazareth, 62 00:05:01:08 00:05:03:24 but never thought one day I would work on this. 63 00:05:03:24 00:05:06:09 It was incredible. For this my father said: 64 00:05:06:09 00:05:09:21 "You work, work, work, but who does the Círio is Our Lady." 65 00:05:09:21 00:05:12:06 Then my husband said: "Wait, I have over 20 years on the Direction." 66 00:05:12:06 00:05:14:00 So, he came there with the priest and said: 67 00:05:14:00 00:05:16:04 "Look, the mantle this year is mine. But do not ask 68 00:05:16:04 00:05:19:05 who will do, who will buy, who would draw, nothing." 69 00:05:19:05 00:05:21:23 He came home and said: "Draw the mantle to Our Lady." 70 00:05:21:23 00:05:23:13 I said: "And this, now?!". 71 00:05:23:13 00:05:25:15 "Ah, you know, draw the mantle to Our Lady". 72 00:05:25:15 00:05:28:09 Then I ran to the Basilica. I prayed, 73 00:05:28:09 00:05:31:00 I stayed looking there, then gave me a snap. 74 00:05:31:00 00:05:34:21 Our Lady inspires me ... Everything I shot from Basilica& 75 00:05:34:21 00:05:38:22 I use to say that is possible to draw two million beautiful mantles, 76 00:05:38:22 00:05:40:22 of so much beauty that has the Basilica. 77 00:05:45:09 00:05:47:03 My first experience, 78 00:05:47:03 00:05:50:14 I was not even early on the team decoration, 79 00:05:50:14 00:05:54:11 but I've been chosen for the team of the Carriage. 80 00:05:54:11 00:05:56:21 It was an amazing experience ... 81 00:05:56:21 00:06:02:19 we get next... we can cut the flowers, 82 00:06:02:19 00:06:07:09 clean the thorns, put in the Carriage ... 83 00:06:07:10 00:06:11:02 it's clear that this work is done by the decorator, but we help. 84 00:06:11:02 00:06:15:13 We stay nearby carrying a bucket, watering a flower, 85 00:06:15:13 00:06:20:09 giving a flower to him put properly in the Carriage. 86 00:06:20:09 00:06:27:00 We have the opportunity to put in the hands, and by our hands 87 00:06:27:00 00:06:29:00 what we carry in the heart. 88 00:06:57:09 00:06:59:23 No, no .. , Let loose! Let loose! Let loose! 89 00:07:04:18 00:07:06:18 Release the rope! Release the rope! 90 00:07:06:24 00:07:08:04 Release the rope there! 91 00:07:08:19 00:07:10:09 Come on drop the rope there! 92 00:08:15:11 00:08:17:04 Lowered! Lowered! 93 00:08:18:08 00:08:20:08 Comes more! Comes more! Comes more! 94 00:08:21:09 00:08:23:11 Prize. Everything is prize in the Guard. 95 00:08:23:11 00:08:25:08 Being Guard is already a prize. 96 00:08:25:09 00:08:27:09 Then, you will say: "Ah, because I'm in the Carriage, 97 00:08:27:09 00:08:32:00 I'm happier, I am privileged..." 98 00:08:32:00 00:08:35:21 Namely, we feel us even more responsible... 99 00:08:35:21 00:08:37:07 because we are more ... 100 00:08:37:07 00:08:38:12 visible. 101 00:08:38:12 00:08:42:09 The visualization of the guards that go pulling the Carriage, 102 00:08:42:09 00:08:45:06 which are around the Carriage, is very serious. 103 00:09:20:02 00:09:22:15 It's the Carriage, is the Our Lady 104 00:09:22:15 00:09:26:04 who is seen by thousands and thousands of people. 105 00:09:26:04 00:09:28:04 But we are around it. 106 00:09:28:12 00:09:34:10 While we are in harmony, we practically are as flowers, live. 107 00:09:34:10 00:09:39:16 Looking over, you will see that we are a crown. 108 00:09:39:16 00:09:42:22 White shirts and blue pants. 109 00:09:42:22 00:09:47:21 We form a live crown of the carriage of Our Lady. 110 00:09:49:23 00:09:52:24 The Guard has 34 years 111 00:09:52:24 00:09:55:23 and I did now thirty-two years of Guard. 112 00:09:55:23 00:10:00:03 We are already extremally blessed just to work for Her. 113 00:10:00:04 00:10:03:09 Only in being near Her is already a blessing. 114 00:10:03:21 00:10:06:09 Protect, protect, protect. 115 00:10:06:14 00:10:10:08 This was the function and the purpose of its creation, 116 00:10:10:08 00:10:14:10 in 1974, by Father Giovanni, 117 00:10:14:11 00:10:17:18 and by the then coordinator of the feast, Dr. Nelson Ribeiro. 118 00:10:17:18 00:10:22:04 After Our Lady, after Jesus Christ, 119 00:10:22:08 00:10:23:22 after the family, 120 00:10:23:23 00:10:25:23 the Guard of Nazareth is everything to me. 121 00:11:50:24 00:11:52:21 Thy Kingdom come, 122 00:11:52:21 00:11:57:11 Thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven. 123 00:12:21:09 00:12:23:09 Pray for us sinners& 124 00:12:24:24 00:12:28:14 I, when was young, I followed. 125 00:12:28:21 00:12:32:00 About three years I went till in the rope. 126 00:12:32:09 00:12:36:12 No, it's not a promise. It was thanks to Our Lady. 127 00:12:37:22 00:12:41:15 Then, over time, the age was coming. 128 00:12:41:16 00:12:44:00 No longer had to go in the rope, 129 00:12:44:00 00:12:47:16 and now I stay just looking the passage of the Holy. 130 00:12:47:16 00:12:51:04 And until today we have this tradition, 131 00:12:51:04 00:12:53:18 which go passing of resident to resident. 132 00:12:53:18 00:12:58:04 And do not fall, no. Each year we see there are more and more. 133 00:12:58:04 00:13:01:20 When we see the Holy pass ... the papers are hidden, 134 00:13:01:20 00:13:04:16 and it's paper of the whole apartment... 135 00:13:04:16 00:13:07:08 We go throwing and asking the blessings to the Holy, 136 00:13:07:08 00:13:09:08 asking for thanks. 137 00:13:09:10 00:13:12:06 It's a joy, is the our Mom who go there, 138 00:13:12:06 00:13:14:06 is the mother of this people. 139 00:13:14:06 00:13:18:04 And everyone happy, there is no distinction of race, 140 00:13:18:04 00:13:20:20 of nothing, of poor ... all is egual. 141 00:13:20:20 00:13:23:08 All children of the same mother. 142 00:14:16:03 00:14:20:17 Viva! Viva! Viva! Viva! 143 00:14:53:01 00:14:55:11 Through information, 144 00:14:55:12 00:14:58:00 through movies, through images ... 145 00:14:58:24 00:15:02:24 you can give an idea, for people who are watching, 146 00:15:02:24 00:15:04:03 what is the Cirio. 147 00:15:04:03 00:15:06:03 But for them to understand what is the Cirio, 148 00:15:06:03 00:15:09:01 they must come to see, they must come to feel, 149 00:15:09:01 00:15:12:19 they need to come have that emotion, regardless of their belief. 150 00:15:12:22 00:15:15:15 Cause the Cirio has not more dependence on belief. 151 00:15:15:15 00:15:17:23 It isn't longer a thing of the Catholic Church. 152 00:15:17:23 00:15:21:24 It's already a culture rooted in the life of the people of Pará. 153 00:15:21:24 00:15:26:23 Because, you have no idea that you're in the crowd, 154 00:15:26:23 00:15:29:01 a lady touch you, and you look and. .. 155 00:15:29:01 00:15:31:05 "No, it's because you touched in the Image" ... 156 00:15:31:05 00:15:33:12 You don't have explanation for this. 157 00:17:49:15 00:17:55:08 Hands of October 158 00:17:58:21 00:18:06:09 Filmed in Belém do Pará, Brazil, on the second Sunday of October. 159 00:18:30:08 00:18:33:08 TRANSLATION Janice Farias