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In Recife, the cult dedicated to Nossa Senhora da Conceição, patroness of the hill of the Yellow House (Casa Amarela), is one of the biggest religious festivals and traditional, which happens in almost all Brazilian states. The party on the hill originated from the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception in Brazil in 1904. At this time, the diocesan bishop D. Luis Raimundo da Silva Brito had built a chapel in Gothic style, and commissioned a replica of the statue of the Virgin of Conception coming from Portugal, all in iron, which was inaugurated on December 8, 1904. Until then this chapel belonged to the community the Well of the pot. Over the years, the hill was populated by humble people homeless and coastal regions of Recife, due to constant flooding of the river Capibaribe. In 1974, before the progressive development of urban district Yellow House, there was the separation of the area of ​​Morro da Conceição and adjacent to the creation of the new parish of Nossa Senhora da Conceição do Morro, established on December 8 of that year. The following year, the parish became the title of Mother of Morro da Conceição. Celebrations in honor of the Virgin of the Conception of the Hill, starting in the week preceding the day on December 8, in the courtyard of the Church, with the holding of masses, novenas, rosaries and prayer traditional pilgrimage to the hill, by the faithful, penitent devotees, paying for promises, visitors and the general population, which constitutes the largest pilgrimage of Recife, an example of faith and Christian humility, which is the necessary element to the material and spiritual survival of the Brazilian people. Parallel to the Catholic Church honors the Virgin Mary is, there are african-Brazilian cults that venerate as Iemanjá, queen of the waters, of all mothers, princesses and maidens, protector of sailors, fishermen and sailors from the sea, the rivers, and lakes. http://basilio.fundaj.gov.br/pesquisaescolar/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=431&Itemid=185Photo by: Rodrigo_Soldon

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