CONFALONI, THE PROPHET WHO PROCLAIMED THE GOSPEL THROUGH THE BRUSHES

Abstract

This article has as object the person of Friar Confaloni, an Italian-Goiano who proclaimed the Good News as a missionary and had the courage to denounce, through brushes, political and social inequalities. His goal was the defense of justice. At a methodological level, in addition to the theoretical bibliography, a sociological reading was sought through the conflictual model, in order to understand its option for the discarded in the Brazilian interior. As an Italian "novecentista" painter, he gradually transformed himself into someone who identified with the marginalized. Priest and reference painter, he was able to update biblical texts contemplating the indigenous, black and peasant face. In the "aggiornamento" of the Bible with reality, he denounced the Brazilian tortures. The biblical Jesus has the face of the suffering Brazilians of the base. In the denunciations, he expressed the hope that comes from God. The hypothesis defines him, not as a theologian of liberation, but as a missionary who, based on his brushes, can be called a painter/prophet of liberation.