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This article originates from the different findings on popular devotion, from performed doctoral research. Here, however, we will narrow down the debate and will analyze the following objectives: to list the "people's saints" in Ceará, highlighting whether there is relation between body in suffering and production of holiness in a gender view; to discuss the particularities of stories of women that were murdered and made part of the popular Catholicism in Ceará; and, finally, to draw a profile of who they are, about the age group, the motivations for crime, the temporality of their deaths intertwined with narratives of devotees. It is important noting that we extensively use documental analysis (FREHSE, 2005) with a careful look at newspaper articles. We focus, especially, on the stories of the "people's saints" in Ceará, being based on the reportage "Santificados", from the newspaper O Povo, one of the main circulation newspapers in Fortaleza-CE. The results of this investigation reveal to us that, about the analyzed sixteen "people's saints" from Ceará, there is no doubt that the chastity, the silence and the obedience are a representation of the Catholic discourse (BOESCH GAJANO, 2002; LE GOFF, 1990, 2007; MATOS, 2014) that crosses the life of these women. Some of them created strategies of agency in their lives, from a gender perspective (MARQUES, 2014), however, were reconstructed by the "saint manufacturers" (SÁEZ,1996), based on the discourse of violence, reconfigured into the notion of martyrdom. However, it is known that the narratives about them overflow or even "subvert" such typologies. They are, therefore, hybrid and porous saints, in the sense of that there is no a fixed identity of holiness in the stories presented. There are, yes, question marks, recreations, asymmetries and continuities in the constitution of femininities of the "people's saints". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]