An attempt to defend the Jesuit Heritage or an excuse to erase its memory. The case of the Jesuit Church in Asunción, Paraguay
Abstract
In the General Archives of the Argentine Nation there is a large file that deals with the issue of the demolition of the Jesuit Church in Asunción, subject which Furlong dealt with somewhat superfi cially, when he worked on the theme of his book on the architects of the River Plate. It is about a great argument made by the Spanish engineer Julio Ramón de César, who tries to preserve a Jesuit building. Moreover, it contains a contemporary testimony that envisages the attempts to erase from the memory the presence of the Jesuits. A very frequently used approach when the purpose is to decimate the identity of the peoples: erase both the oral as well as the written memory, and also their architetural memory. This paper attempts to rescue that memory so as to reveal the intentions of a human group that acted in a time that was unfavorable to the Jesuits.
Key words: Jesuit Church of Asunción, engineer Julio Ramón de César, cultural heritage.
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