¡A Luján! Las Comunidades de inmigrantes y el naciente catolicismo de masas, 1910-1934

The objective of this work is to explain the phenomenon of the mobilizations of immigrant communities in Lujan, based on a consideration of the bigger picture in which they took place, including the general context of Argentine Catholicism near the time of the Centennial. As such, it must be noted that Italians were not the only group, nor the first one, that organized processions in Lujan that attracted increasingly greater numbers of participants. Our focus is on the decade of 1910, years in which Catholic processions and demonstrations were becoming every more numerous. Usually historigraphic studies tend to date the appearance of Catholicism of the masses from the decade of the 1930s, the most telling expression of which can be found in the celebration of the 1934 International Eucharistic Congress. Nevertheless, it is often forgotten that the first event of these characteristics was celebrated in Buenos Aires as early as 1916, with the first National Eucharistic Congress. This echoed the nascent wave of Catholic mass mobilizations that began at the time of the Centennial. Among others, the Italians were active in this wave.