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While there are reports of black Brazilians venerating an image of a slave woman wearing a mask and collar throughout the late 19th and early 20th century, wide-scale veneration of the saint was sparked in 1968. The curators of the Museum of the Negro, located in the annex of the Church of Our Lady of the Rosary of Black Men and Saint Benedict in Rio de Janeiro, erected an exhibition to honor the 80th anniversary of Lei Áurea, which abolished slavery in Brazil. Among the displays was an engraving of a female slave wearing a punishment mask. The image soon became the object of popular devotion, and members of the Brotherhood of Black Men began collecting Anastácia stories in the early 1970s.[citation needed]