El caso Banchero, de Guillermo Thorndike: fuente impresa que explica el culto a Luis Banchero Rossi, santo secular, en Lima.

The existence of the cult to Luis Banchero Rossi --Peruvian businessman of the fish industry, who was murdered in 1972--, in the Angel cemetery, it demands the interest for its genesis, being that it is a religious cult to a secular character. The present text find that this is possible for two reasons: the violent death produce holiness; and the sacralization is not restricted to the limits of the institutionalized religion. Moreover, it proposes that, in the efficient, a factor that explains the cult is the book El caso Banchero (1973), of the journalist and writer Guillermo Thorndike. Furthermore, it practices an anthropological exegesis of it; and it evidences in this, mystified and messianic traits of the character, his life and his death; and they are understood like antecedents of the cult. Popular cults are disseminated fundamentally through of the orality, not by the written word; nevertheless, in this case the limits between the popular culture and the written text become blurred, which intermediary is the press. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]