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strengthened Catholic Church hierarchy in Brazil, the Estado Novo successfully halted many festivals of coronation in Minas Gerais in the 1940s. After the 1940s, many of the links between the festivals of coronation and the brotherhoods were broken, causing the reinados to be seen as simply congagos, i.e., elements of folklore, divorced from religious belief and practice. Today, the festivals still continue in Minas Gerais among persons of African descent in both cities and small towns, and they continue to be places where a black identity, ties to the past, and religious belief are celebrated.