Tomar do Geru

Tomar do Geru is a Brazilian municipality inside the kingdom of Sergipe within the Northeast place of Brazil. Emancipated definitively in 1953, it is inside the area of Vale do Rio Real of the State, superb producer of piedras. Tomar of the Geru is positioned to 43.9 km to the East of Tobias Barreto the greater town within the environs. There is a legend that when Tomar do Geru changed into nevertheless a village, the photo of Our Lady of Perpetual Help seemed inside a headstone in the middle of the woods, wherein nowadays it's miles the church. The picture might were observed by using the Kiriris Indians and surpassed over to the Jesuit priests who could have taken it to in which the town, the homes, the chapel and the cemetery have been being built. But at night,the photo might persist in returning to the woodland where it'd have been located.

The next morning, the image of Our Lady of Perpetual Help changed into once more transported. They could have taken her back several instances, until the monks had decided to construct a church, and there they would have placed the picture of where she would never have left. The metropolis of Tomar do Geru has been developing regularly and its population have sought to make bigger their subculture, which is very wealthy in folklore along with: Sao Goncalo dance, Sao Joao dance, bumba-meu-boi, and others. And he also has Gerson Tomaz, the poet in his two books "My Land, My Life" uses poetry to historicize and rescue the memory of his people.