“…Venerated by her beatas, pilgrims and penitents in these rituals, the performatic moments directed toward her establish an hierarchized communication (LANGDON, 1996), different from that observed (to Pedro Batista and other Beatos) for the male gender, as we will see later, originating, in this way, innovations in how the performers (the beatas) of Dodô rise up to her. Adjustments are made to the ritual performances in which the structure, both social, cultural as well as messianic of popular Catholicism, is activated in these performances, in which, a religious feminine body, sacramented while still living, as in the case of Madrinha Dodô, provides spiritual support to her penitent pilgrims, specifying, as Laraia (1997), suggested, the woman as a dual being. That is, her experiences in (public) spaces are different from the male, and can be observed in her corporal postures, which are significantly different from those of the male universe (LARAIA, 1997).…”