Photos I made for my book "The Secret of the Twelve Prophets", edited in Brazil. In this book I make a curious relation between the twelve prophets carved by Antônio Francisco Lisboa and the inconfidentes, a group that tried to liberate Brazil from Portugal in the late eighteenth century. The prophets were carved in Congonhas in the years 1800 to 1806. The inconfidents were taken to prison, where two died, and then exiled in Africa, with the exception of Tiradentes, hanged in 1792.