| Summary: | This article presents the results of the investigations on the bubonic plague in the town of Ituzaingó, Province of Corrientes, Argentina. We take as a reference what happened in the first decades of the 20th century, between the years 1912 and 1919. As a primary hypothesis, we consider that the people of the interior of Argentina were not exempt from the influence of the bubonic plague and subsequent practices that occurred. We make the account of how hygienist / social and religious actions were implemented in the town of Ituzaingó, triggered by the announcement of the disease. Our work made possible the rescue and enhancement of the practices and objects that accompanied the population of Ituzaingó in this period of crisis. From the general corpus of the investigation we extract the information related to the protection mechanisms and all that is related to the liturgical elements that the Catholicism of the locality handled in face of the possible death of the population. To address the problem, we worked with historical records, objects and documents available in the archive of the San Juan Bautista Parish (Diocese of Santo Tomé) in the town of Ituzaingó, Corrientes, the archive of the Coordination of Education and Culture (former Directorate of Museums), Archives and Conservation Area of the Municipality of Ituzaingó. Corrientes, the private archive of the folklorologist Miguel Raúl López Bréard and the private archive of the author, in all cases focusing on the first decades of the 20th century. Ethnographic interviews were also conducted with various key interlocutors.
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