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The mother Stella of Oxóssi will be buried Saturday night (29) in Salvador. The ceremony is scheduled for 11 am (12 hours in Brasilia), at Jardim da Saudade Cemetery in Brotas.
The body of ialorixá, one of the most important of the country, will be taken to the cemetery by a procession that will leave from 9 o'clock the land that was headed by it, Ilê Axé Opô Afonjá. in the district of São Gonçalo do Retiro, also in the capital of the state of Bahia. The distance between the sites is about 7.5 km.
The ialorixá would be buried in Nazaré, in the concave Bahia, but the burial was transferred to the capital, as a result of a court decision.
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The trial was motivated by a stalemate between Mother Stella's partner, Graziela Dhomini, and the sons of the saint Ilê Ax Opô Afonjá, founded by the religious leader, and his family.
The body of Stella's mother from Oxóssi is removed from the funeral home of Nazaré and taken to Salvador – Photo: Reproduction will be / TV Bahia
The decision of the court arrived at the beginning of Friday afternoon (28), during the continuation of ialorixá held in the Chamber of Municipal Councilors of Nazareth.The ceremony was open to the public and counted on the participation of children from Saint-Laurent, who took the body of the place after having read the court decision. On the site, the time is tense.
Mother Stella's body was transported from the wake to Salvador. Upon his arrival in the capital, Bahia, he was taken to a funeral home and transferred to Axo Opô Afonjá Terreiro, in the district of São Gonçalo do Retiro. On the site, the holy sons participated in a ceremony in honor of ialorixá.
The body of mother Stella began to be veiled in Nazareth, in Bahian's recôncavo, but this n & # 3 9 is only towards the end of the nineteenth century. taken to Salvador after a court order – Photo: Juliana Cavalcante / TV Bahia
Mother Stella died at the age of 93, Thursday (27), at INCAR Hospital of Santo Antônio de Jesus , also in Bahia Recôncavo, where she had been hospitalized since 14 December, when she was admitted with an infection.
Since 2017, Mother Stella lived in the city of Nazareth, located about 210 km from Salvador. She moved from Salvador to this place because of the disagreement between the sons of Saint and his companion, Graziela.
Upon the death of ialorixá, the land, Ilê Axé Opó Afonja, will be closed for a year in mourning. In this period, there will be no cults or feasts, according to what determines the candomblé tradition whenever an ialorixá or a babalorixá dies.
It is only at the end of 2019 that the terreiro will have a new ialorixá. The substitution will be determined by the orixás, with game of shells. The leadership is entrusted to a woman because Ilê Axé Opó Afonjá is a house of feminine tradition.
Mother Stella was born in the United States of America. May 2, 1925 in Salvador. She was the fourth daughter of Esmeraldo Antigno dos Santos and Thomázia de Azevedo Santos.
At the age of thirteen, she is taken away by the aunt who raised her to the terreiro of mother Aninha, founder of Ilê Axé Opô Afonjá. A year later, it was launched in candomblé. In his youth, he always liked to read. She graduated as a nurse, a profession she had been practicing for 30 years. In 1976, at the age of 51, she was chosen by the Orixás to become the new leader of the Terreiro de São Gonçalo do Retiro. Mother Stella was the fifth ialorixa to order Ilê Axé Opó Afonjá.
In 1999, Mother Stella had the terreiro registered by the National Historical and Artistic Heritage Institute (Iphan).
In 2005, he received an honorary doctorate from the Federal University of Bahia (Ufba). Four years later, he received the same degree from the State University of Bahia. In addition, Mother Stella received the Order of the Knight, the State Government and the Order of Merit, Ministry of Culture, with the commendation Maria Quitéria, of the Salvador City Hall.
She was the first ialorixá in Brazil to write books and articles on candomblé. In 2013, she was unanimously elected to the Bahia Academy of Letters, where she was named President 33, under the patron of the poet Castro Alves.
Mother Stella of Oxóssi – Photo: Danutta Rodrigues
The religious, cultural and social leader of his people has always condemned religious syncretism. . For the mother of St. Stella of Oxóssi, candomblé is candomblé and Catholicism, Catholicism. He did not agree with the merger between saints and orishas.
Always concerned about preserving black culture, Mother Stella participated in conferences and gave lectures. In Ilê Ax Opô Afonjá, he installed the first open-air museum in a candomblé house, where you can see the clothes and objects used by the mothers of the house and the orixás.
The book "Mother Stella of Oxóssi – Estrela our, the simplest", work of the writer Marcos Santana, tells the story of the life of the ialorixá with poems, testimonies, criticisms and badyzes of some of his intellectual productions. The works were launched in 2014, in Ilê Axé Opô Afonjá terreiro.
The book is a collection that combines historical and cultural rescue with texts by several authors, such as: Edivaldo Boaventura, Muniz Sodré, Antonio Olinto, Jorge Amado, Fernando Coelho, Fr. Arnaldo Lima, Dorival Caymmi, Jorge Portugal , Menininha dos Gantois, Shadow of Xango, Marcos Santana and Mother Stella herself.
In 2014, Mother Stella was also honored by Flica, a literary festival held every year in the city of Cachoeira, in the Recôncavo Baiano. At the same time, he set up the traveling library by adapting a bus to transport books dealing with curiosities concerning all religions. He preached mutual respect and peaceful coexistence among all beliefs so that people could come closer by faith.
More than a priestess of one of the country's largest candomblé terreiros, Mother Stella de Oxóssi was an activist of the cultural rescue of a city.
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