The First Hundred Years

In the beginning, a plantation, a chapel and a sovereign lord.
Master of everything, lands, water and men.
Owners of their bodies, but not of their minds.
And so, one day a man thought, and with his own hands
freed himself of the despot’s yoke!
In the rushing waters of the Capibaribe River he washed the hands and feet of Our lady of sorrows.
He made the sign of the cross and so was born
The proud people of Bom Jesus.