Case file · Sacred site
The Santidade of Jaguaripe
Around 1585 an Indigenous prophet called Antônio led a movement in Bahia's Jaguaripe region that mixed Tupinambá prophecy with Catholic forms. It promised freedom from the Portuguese and a land of plenty.
1585 CE · -13.11, -38.90 · status: official
The account
A planter, Fernão Cabral de Taíde, sheltered the movement on his estate. The Inquisition investigated it during its 1591 visitation. Ronaldo Vainfas studied it in 'A Heresia dos Índios' (1995).