Relicário profissional: feitios e modos de fazer a docência em uma instituição escolar confessional católica

This article, inscribed in studies on the history of the teaching profession, assumes the investigation of life stories to think about the ways of becoming a teacher in different scenarios. In this research, stories of teachers in a Catholic confessional school space were investigated. As an objective to analyze the processes of constitution of the professional identity of teachers of the Catholic confessional school Irma Maria Catarina Levrini in Teresina-PI from 1957-2003. It was theoretically discussed with Caria (2008) and Novoa (1999) about stories of the profession and the constitution of teaching professionalism. Oral history methodology was used to build data from the informants' memory. Their reminiscences were categorized and analyzed in the light of identity discussions. The research findings signaled that the educational spaces, when institutionalized, are circumscribed in the stories of the subjects forging a project of society, especially in the subjects / teachers and in their professional practices, as well as the teachers when exercising their professional action in the institutions also leave singular marks of its action.