A infância desvalida na trajetória do Instituto Dona Placidina em Mogi das Cruzes (1931-1966): análise da dinâmica de atendimento de meninas órfãs e pobres em uma instituição de ensino católica

Abstract

This research analyzes the receiving of poor orphan girls the history of the Dona Placidina Institute of Mogi das Cruzes from 1931 to 1966. The Institute was a primary catholic school created in 1931, to receive poor orphan girls according to the demanded will of a priest of that city. Priest João Lourenço de Siqueira, who left all his estate for the Archdiocese of São Paulo to found the Institution. The Institute, ran by the Sisters of São Vicente de Paulo de Gysegem, along the years, became an important private school in the city and began to receive an important part of the Mogiana elite. In this study I try to understand which social function the supportless childhood started to be taken into account in the Institute, from its foundation until 1966, when the intership was closed - sector which received the orphan girls - and the leaving of the Sisters of São Vicente from the Institute. The research analyzes the acting of different interlocutors who contributed to the conformation of the Institute. For that, I've used as sources, the intern laws of the Institute, the board meeting records, the reports delivered to the Archdiocese, city authors' articles and local newspapers. Inspired by the analyses of the English Historian Edward Palmer Thompson, I tried to understand the importance that the poor orphan childhood acquired in the life of the Institution, inspite of the constant decrease in the number of poor orphan girls received