FROM THE FACTORY TO THE TABERNACLE: THE WORKER PRIESTS, THE CATHOLIC WORKING YOUTH (JOC) AND THE REPRESSION OF THE MILITARY DICTATORSHIP IN SANTOS/SP (1967-1973)

This article intends to analyze the trajectory of the worker priests of the Sons of Charity congregation french majority priests who worked in the diocese of Santos/SP along the military dictactorship period. Responsible for the rearticulation of the Catholic Workers' Youth (JOC) in the Baixada Santista region they dealt with intense surveillance with three of them being arrested on the date of enactment of AI-5. We used as main reference the analysis of part of the content made available by the collection of the Police Station of Political Social Order of Santos (DOPS Santos) under the custody of the Public Archive of the State of São Paulo (APESP).