The article aims to analyze how authoritarian regimes in Latin America in the late twentieth century were taken as a reason for a deviation facing the Christian tradition of calendars guiding the faithful to remember, every day, a saint's life. I will follow, as a guideline, a specific case: the life and death of Frei Tito de Alencar Lima, Dominican imprisoned and tortured between 1969 and 1970. From this cut, I will make an assessment of the possibilities of mapping the senses of time at work in this "new" martyrology, trying to understand in what sense will hagiography try to legitimize itself as "history writing". Then, I want to make a historiographical approach, understanding the historiography as a field of discussions about the ways in which the past is given to read at present time.
temporality; writing of history; hagiography