Roque Santeiro
In the tiny poor town of Asa Branca, in the middle of Brazilian Northeast, Roque Santeiro is worshiped as a saint. He was supposedly killed by a bandit, 18 years ago, trying to save the local church. After his disappearance, local leaderships such as landowner Sinhozinho Malta and mayor Florindo, took profit on that to control the humble population. They even make up a widow, Porcina, who should have married Roque secretly before his death. What they don't expect is that Roque is alive, and he's back to, allegedly, "save his people". Now Malta, Florindo, Porcina, and others must hold him down and explain the "truth" to their commoners, in a desperate attempt to save their own bottoms. Meanwhile, mysterious facts surround Asa Branca, such as a Werewolf, a film crew who are trying to shoot a movie about Roque's story, and violent murderers.
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In Asa Branca, residents live according to the supposed miracles of Roque Santeiro, who is said to have died as a martyr, but reappears years later, threatening the power of the authorities.
1.Chapter 1
24-06-198546mAsa Branca is getting a statue of Roque Santeiro seventeen years after the hero saved the city. Dona Mocinha complains that the statue doesn't resemble Roque, her ex-fiancé.
2.Chapter 2
25-06-198541mGerson gets angry at Roque's widow's attitude and tries to file a complaint against her with the police. Mocinha tells Dona Pombinha that she will never marry and will die single.
3.Chapter 3 (Part 1)
26-06-198537mPombinha and Mocinha confront Matilde about the opening of the nightclub, but the dancers stand up to them. Sinhozinho Malta visits the widow Porcina, but she pretends to be ill.
4.Chapter 3 (Part 2)
27-06-198536mThe film crew meets Roque Santeiro's father and brother. The widow, Porcina, seeks out the film's director to discuss the script.
5.Chapter 4
28-06-198539mPorcina orders Gerson to remove Mocinha's scene from the script. Mocinha calls Roberto Mathias for a chat and discovers that he will be playing Roque Santeiro in the film.
6.Chapter 5
29-06-198543mMocinha tries on her wedding dress. At the unveiling of the statue, Mocinha and Widow Porcina have a heated argument, each saying that the other should not be the one being honored...
7.Chapter 6
01-07-198546mTânia tells Roberto that she is not attracted to him. A bomb explodes at the Sexus nightclub before its opening. Mocinha goes to Porcina's house for the statue's unveiling party.
8.Chapter 7
02-07-198545mSinhozinho Malta tells Tânia that he feels lonely. Astromar says he's in love with Mocinha. Tânia asks the farmhands about the accident that killed her mother.
9.Chapter 8
03-07-198537mTânia tells Porcina that she doesn't mind her marrying Sinhozinho Malta, and the two argue. Mocinha tells Zé das Medalhas that she has a relic from Roque Santeiro.
10.Chapter 9
04-07-198541mRoberto Mathias goes to visit Porcina and the two sleep together. Roberto oversleeps and doesn't show up for the recording. Pombinha sees the dancers from the Sexus nightclub at th...
11.Chapter 10
05-07-198539mSinhozinho Malta promises to reopen the Sexus nightclub. Roberto Mathias and Porcina go out together. Linda tries to talk to Lulu, Zé das Medalhas' wife, without success. Malta sle...
12.Chapter 11
06-07-198554mMocinha runs to Roque's statue. Malta's mother-in-law appears and says she's going to live on the farm. Roberto Mathias goes to visit Porcina. Lulu leaves home and goes to Matilde'...
13.Chapter 12
08-07-198559mThe nightclub is reopened. Tito is thinking about opening a candle factory in Asa Branca. Pombinha and Mocinha gather the women of Asa Branca to protest against the opening of Sexu...
14.Chapter 13
09-07-198544mPorcina meets Dona Marcelina, the mother of Sinhozinho Malta's ex-wife. Professor Astromar prepares to destroy Roque's statue when he is interrupted by a drunkard.
15.Chapter 14
10-07-198539mLulu asks Zé to take her to the nightclub. Matilde receives a mysterious letter. Linda and Gerson go to Sexus. The women of the city gather at the nightclub's door with brooms in t...
16.Chapter 15
11-07-198537mThe women prepare to storm the nightclub, but Matilde and the girls fight back. Linda Bastos is hit. Roberto prepares to flee Porcina's house when he sees Malta arriving.
17.Chapter 16
12-07-198541mSinhozinho Malta goes to the inn where Roberto Mathias is staying. Porcina sends Mina to the inn with a note telling Roberto not to visit her.
18.Chapter 17
13-07-198543mMina makes up an excuse for Sinhozinho Malta, and he tells Matilde that he will have to close the nightclub. The note from the widow Porcina reaches Roberto Mathias, but Matilde in...
19.Chapter 18
15-07-198540mPorcina calls Roberto Mathias. Roberto and Tânia almost kiss. Lulu meets Father Albano and confesses to him. Porcina goes to the inn to look for Roberto.
20.Chapter 19
16-07-198544mGerson asks Roberto Mathias to get close to the widow Porcina to keep her away from the filming. One of Porcina's henchmen goes to fetch Roberto, but he says he can't go.
21.Chapter 20
17-07-198544mMalta threatens Roberto. Porcina returns alone from the farm and goes to watch a recording of Roberto when she is surprised by Malta. Roberto is kidnapped by Porcina's henchmen.
22.Chapter 21
18-07-198543mEveryone is searching for Roberto, who is taken by the henchmen to Porcina's farm. Tânia goes to find Malta and accuses him of kidnapping Roberto because she suspects they are dati...
23.Chapter 22
19-07-198543mMalta asks Porcina if she is involved in Roberto's disappearance. Gerson declares his love for Linda. Lulu borrows a dress from Linda. Tania goes to pick up Roberto at the inn.
24.Chapter 23
20-07-198544mDondinha overhears João Ligeiro saying he's in love with another woman. An old acquaintance goes to the nightclub looking for Matilde. Porcina tells Malta she's going to buy her we...
25.Chapter 24
22-07-198542mPorcina meets Roberto Mathias at the inn. Zé das Medalhas tells Jiló that Mocinha has the original saints made by Roque Santeiro. Tânia looks for Roberto at the boarding house.
26.Chapter 25
23-07-198544mRoberto tells Sinhozinho Malta that he has nothing to do with Tânia. Malta tells the widow Porcina that he is considering allowing Tânia and Roberto to date. Linda buys Porcina's l...
27.Chapter 26
24-07-198542mTânia argues with Sinhozinho. The tailor Jura, a friend of Matilde, arrives in town to make the widow Porcina's dress. Tânia declares her love for Roberto. Roque returns to town.
28.Chapter 27
25-07-198544mRoque looks for a room at Matilde's inn and is surprised by how much Asa Branca has grown. Roque goes to church and, without anyone seeing, leaves the monstrance on the altar.
29.Chapter 28
26-07-198538mRoque watches the filming of the scene in which he is killed by the gang of the bandit Navalhada. Everyone believes the monstrance descended from heaven. Mocinha faints upon seeing...
30.Chapter 29
27-07-198544mMatilde tells the story of the legend of Roque to Roque himself, without knowing who he is. Roque goes to confess to Father Hipólito.
31.Chapter 30
29-07-198541mFather Hipólito faints and Roque begs for forgiveness. Father Hipólito discovers the truth about what happened seventeen years earlier, when a razor-wielding attack swept through t...
32.Chapter 31
30-07-198543mRoque and Porcina meet, but Roque makes no mention of knowing her. Alone with Roque, Porcina tells him that Sinhozinho Malta invented the whole story of her marriage to Roque.
33.Chapter 32
31-07-198545mRoque sleeps at Porcina's house. Sinhozinho Malta, worried, goes home but returns the next day looking for Roque, and Mina informs him that he has left.
34.Chapter 33
01-08-198541mRoque learns that his father has become a saint. Florindo, Father Hipólito, and Sinhozinho Malta go to Roque to tell him what they have decided about his fate, but they cannot reac...
35.Chapter 34
02-08-198544mTerêncio catches Roberto and Tânia kissing and tells Sinhozinho Malta, who gets upset. Sinhozinho offers Roque money to disappear from Asa Branca.
36.Chapter 35
03-08-198545mLuizão asks Lulu to let his daughter film the scene where, at eight years old, she had a vision of Roque. When Lulu goes to explain how it all happened, she looks ahead and sees Ro...
37.Chapter 36
05-08-198540mRoque appears in the room and Sinhozinho Malta plays a trick to hide him from Pombinha, intriguing everyone. Malta catches Roberto and Tânia together and orders Terêncio to capture...
38.Chapter 37
06-08-198543mSinhozinho Malta takes Roberto Mathias to his home, surprising his daughter. Mirna sees the saints in Roque's room and discovers that the guest used to be a saint maker.
39.Chapter 38
07-08-198545mPorcina, Sinhozinho Malta, and the mayor meet and ask the priest to tell Roque Santeiro to leave Asa Branca and say that this is God's will.
40.Chapter 39
08-08-198542mNinon hears the werewolf's howl again. Roque witnesses the end of a pilgrimage by a man who made a promise to Roque Santeiro and carried a cross from Belo Horizonte to Asa Branca.
41.Chapter 40
09-08-198540mRoque says in front of the mayor and the colonel that he needs to tell the truth and asks the priest for advice, who says he can't help him. Ninon and Rosaly arm themselves to welc...
42.Chapter 41
10-08-198541mBeato Salu doesn't believe Roque and makes a scandal. Sinhozinho Malta acts so that Beato Salu doesn't talk too much to the people of the city and decides to have him hospitalized.
43.Chapter 42
12-08-198560m
44.Chapter 43
13-08-198560m
45.Chapter 44
14-08-198540m
46.Chapter 45
15-08-198542m
47.Chapter 46
16-08-198542m
48.Chapter 47
17-08-198540m
49.Chapter 48
19-08-198537m
50.Chapter 49
20-08-198560m- Ep 51
51.Chapters 50 & 51
21-08-198560m - Ep 52
52.Chapter 52
22-08-198537m - Ep 53
53.Chapter 53
23-08-198541m - Ep 54
54.Chapter 54
24-08-198538m - Ep 55
55.Chapter 55
26-08-198543m - Ep 56
56.Chapter 56
27-08-198559m - Ep 57
57.Chapter 57
28-08-198539m - Ep 58
58.Chapter 58
29-08-198537m - Ep 59
59.Chapter 59
30-08-198537m - Ep 60
60.Chapter 60
31-08-198541m - Ep 61
61.Chapter 61
02-09-198559m - Ep 62
62.Chapter 62
03-09-198539m - Ep 63
63.Chapter 63
04-09-198540m - Ep 64
64.Chapter 64
05-09-198542m - Ep 65
65.Chapter 65
06-09-198538m - Ep 66
66.Chapter 66
07-09-198536m - Ep 67
67.Chapter 67
09-09-198539m - Ep 68
68.Chapter 68
10-09-198539m - Ep 69
69.Chapter 69
11-09-198541m - Ep 70
70.Chapter 70
12-09-198539m - Ep 71
71.Chapter 71
13-09-198541m - Ep 72
72.Chapter 72
14-09-198541m - Ep 73
73.Chapter 73
16-09-198544m - Ep 74
74.Chapter 74
17-09-198542m - Ep 75
75.Chapter 75
18-09-198540m - Ep 76
76.Chapter 76
19-09-198541m - Ep 77
77.Chapter 77
20-09-198541m - Ep 78
78.Chapter 78
21-09-198540m - Ep 79
79.Chapter 79
23-09-198536m - Ep 80
80.Chapter 80
24-09-198539m - Ep 81
81.Chapter 81
25-09-198540m - Ep 82
82.Chapter 82
26-09-198542m - Ep 83
83.Chapter 83
27-09-198543m - Ep 84
84.Chapter 84
28-09-198559m - Ep 85
85.Chapter 85
30-09-198540m - Ep 86
86.Chapter 86
01-10-198536m - Ep 87
87.Chapter 87
02-10-198543m - Ep 88
88.Chapter 88
03-10-198541m - Ep 89
89.Chapter 89
04-10-198536m - Ep 90
90.Chapter 90
05-10-198559m - Ep 91
91.Chapter 91
07-10-198541m - Ep 92
92.Chapter 92
08-10-198540m - Ep 93
93.Chapter 93
09-10-198539m - Ep 94
94.Chapter 94
10-10-198543m - Ep 95
95.Chapter 95
11-10-198541m - Ep 96
96.Chapter 96
12-10-198538m - Ep 97
97.Chapter 97
14-10-198541m - Ep 98
98.Chapter 98
15-10-198541m - Ep 99
99.Chapter 99
16-10-198542m - Ep 100
100.Chapter 100
17-10-198543m - Ep 101
101.Chapter 101
18-10-198542m - Ep 102
102.Chapter 102
19-10-198540m - Ep 103
103.Chapter 103
21-10-198543m - Ep 104
104.Chapter 104
22-10-198542m - Ep 105
105.Chapter 105
23-10-198542m - Ep 106
106.Chapter 106
24-10-198539m - Ep 107
107.Chapter 107
25-10-198539m - Ep 108
108.Chapter 108
26-10-198536m - Ep 109
109.Chapter 109
28-10-198541m - Ep 110
110.Chapter 110
29-10-198543m - Ep 111
111.Chapter 111
30-10-198542m - Ep 112
112.Chapter 112
31-10-198540m - Ep 113
113.Chapter 113
01-11-198540m - Ep 114
114.Chapter 114
02-11-198537m - Ep 115
115.Chapter 115
04-11-198559m - Ep 116
116.Chapter 116
05-11-198541m - Ep 117
117.Chapter 117
06-11-198541m - Ep 118
118.Chapter 118
07-11-198541m - Ep 119
119.Chapter 119
08-11-198541m - Ep 120
120.Chapter 120
09-11-198559m - Ep 121
121.Chapter 121
11-11-198542m - Ep 122
122.Chapter 122
12-11-198542m - Ep 123
123.Chapter 123
13-11-198542m - Ep 124
124.Chapter 124
14-11-198541m - Ep 125
125.Chapter 125
15-11-198544m - Ep 126
126.Chapter 126
16-11-198538m - Ep 127
127.Chapter 127
18-11-198539m - Ep 128
128.Chapter 128
19-11-198540m - Ep 129
129.Chapter 129
20-11-198540m - Ep 130
130.Chapter 130
21-11-198541m - Ep 131
131.Chapter 131
22-11-198540m - Ep 132
132.Chapter 132
23-11-198559m - Ep 133
133.Chapter 133
25-11-198540m - Ep 134
134.Chapter 134
26-11-198541m - Ep 135
135.Chapter 135
27-11-198540m - Ep 136
136.Chapter 136
28-11-198545m - Ep 137
137.Chapter 137
29-11-198537m - Ep 138
138.Chapter 138
30-11-198540m - Ep 139
139.Chapter 139
02-12-198541m - Ep 140
140.Chapter 140
03-12-198542m - Ep 141
141.Chapter 141
04-12-198540m - Ep 142
142.Chapter 142
05-12-198540m - Ep 143
143.Chapter 143
06-12-198542m - Ep 144
144.Chapter 144
07-12-198542m - Ep 145
145.Chapter 145
09-12-198541m - Ep 146
146.Chapter 146
10-12-198540m - Ep 147
147.Chapter 147
11-12-198542m - Ep 148
148.Chapter 148
12-12-198540m - Ep 149
149.Chapter 149
13-12-198540m - Ep 150
150.Chapter 150
14-12-198544m - Ep 151
151.Chapter 151
16-12-198542m - Ep 152
152.Chapter 152
17-12-198540m - Ep 153
153.Chapter 153
18-12-198536m - Ep 154
154.Chapter 154
19-12-198543m - Ep 155
155.Chapter 155
20-12-198542m - Ep 156
156.Chapter 156
21-12-198559m - Ep 157
157.Chapter 157
23-12-198541m - Ep 158
158.Chapter 158
24-12-198542m - Ep 159
159.Chapter 159
25-12-198540m - Ep 160
160.Chapter 160
26-12-198540m - Ep 161
161.Chapter 161
27-12-198540m - Ep 162
162.Chapter 162
28-12-198541m - Ep 163
163.Chapter 163
30-12-198543m - Ep 164
164.Chapter 164
31-12-198540m - Ep 165
165.Chapter 165
01-01-198641m - Ep 166
166.Chapter 166
02-01-198641m - Ep 167
167.Chapter 167
03-01-198644m - Ep 168
168.Chapter 168
04-01-198640m - Ep 169
169.Chapter 169
06-01-198643m - Ep 170
170.Chapter 170
07-01-198643m - Ep 171
171.Chapter 171
08-01-198644m - Ep 172
172.Chapter 172
09-01-198640m - Ep 173
173.Chapter 173
10-01-198641m - Ep 174
174.Chapter 174
11-01-198641m - Ep 175
175.Chapter 175
13-01-198638m - Ep 176
176.Chapter 176
14-01-198640m - Ep 177
177.Chapter 177
15-01-198659m - Ep 178
178.Chapter 178
16-01-198640m - Ep 179
179.Chapter 179
17-01-198638m - Ep 180
180.Chapter 180
18-01-198642m - Ep 181
181.Chapter 181
20-01-198639m - Ep 182
182.Chapter 182
21-01-198660m - Ep 183
183.Chapter 183
22-01-198640m - Ep 184
184.Chapter 184
23-01-198637m - Ep 185
185.Chapter 185
24-01-198640m - Ep 186
186.Chapter 186
25-01-198643m - Ep 187
187.Chapter 187
27-01-198640m - Ep 188
188.Chapter 188
28-01-198642m - Ep 189
189.Chapter 189
29-01-198639m - Ep 190
190.Chapter 190
30-01-198643m - Ep 191
191.Chapter 191
31-01-198642m - Ep 192
192.Chapter 192
01-02-198636m - Ep 193
193.Chapter 193
03-02-198639m - Ep 194
194.Chapter 194
04-02-198637m - Ep 195
195.Chapter 195
05-02-198640m - Ep 196
196.Chapter 196
06-02-198638m - Ep 197
197.Chapter 197
07-02-198637m - Ep 198
198.Chapter 198
08-02-198644m - Ep 199
199.Chapter 199
10-02-198641m - Ep 200
200.Chapter 200
11-02-198639m - Ep 201
201.Chapter 201
12-02-198638m - Ep 202
202.Chapter 202
13-02-198641m - Ep 203
203.Chapter 203
14-02-198660m - Ep 204
204.Chapter 204
15-02-198641m - Ep 205
205.Chapter 205
17-02-198641m - Ep 206
206.Chapter 206
18-02-198637m - Ep 207
207.Chapter 207
19-02-198641m - Ep 208
208.Chapter 208
20-02-198660m - Ep 209
209.Chapter 209
21-02-198671m
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