Cauldron Sítio Massacre Survivors in Crato Ceará are surrounded by military
Cauldron Sítio Massacre Survivors in Crato Ceará are surrounded by military. 86 years ago, on May 11, 1937, the northeastern community, accused of "communist subversion", was decimated by aerial shootings and bombing conducted by the Brazilian Army. Since 1926, the St. Cruz of the Cauldron Farm, located in the rural Crato area, housed a community of waitresses, scourges of drought and peasants. The community leader was a beato called Joseph Lourenço, protected from Father Cicero. The priest himself had brokered the farm's concession, at first to house rural workers expelled from a nearby rural estate that had been sold out. Father Cicero proceeded to send in the care of Jose Lourenço the retirantes seeking his blessings in North Juazeiro, which led to the rapid growth of the community. Under the leadership of José Lourenço, the farm worked as a common society, sustained by mutual cooperation and equal breakdown of production. The villagers produced almost everything th...