ABSTRACT
This text analyses religious discourses about yearning and its “remedies” based on the sermon of the solitudes of Our Lady, preached by portuguese Dominican João Franco in Portugal in the 1720’s. Taking a historical-cultural approach and dialoguing with historiography dedicated to the writing practices, the Catholic spiritual discourses and the sensitivities, the objective is to identify and discuss the Christian understanding of the feeling of yearning, its possible effects on the bodies and souls, as well as its supposed remedies, such as company and tears. Such analysis considers this understanding and the instructions given to the faithful by the Dominican, through the senses shared at the time, which conform a religious mentality, focused, above all, on the emphasis on Marian devotion in Portugal in the first decades of the 18th century.
KEYWORDS:
sermons of solitude; João Franco; sensitivities