This communication is part of an investigation into collective rituals that commemorate the deceased in Mompox, Colombia. Specifically, it seeks to establish the ethos that unites the community in the so-called ritual of Alumbrado.The objective of this specific work is to expose how the representations of the souls in purgatory, located in the Mompox cemetery, are constructed as figures that correspond to a being with some type of sensitive and discursive presence in the space and time of the rite. The analysis is carried out with resources from the semiotics of practices and tense semiotics based on photographic records of two Alumbrado rites from the year 2023 (that of Holy Wednesday and the one that occurs on November 2, day of the faithful dead). The exhibition includes iconoplastic representations of the cemetery chapel; These are part of an ostentation of the belief during the ritual.With topological categories and the consideration of the relationship between the iconoplastic elaboration with the sensitive body of the participants, actantial aspects are considered in the representation of the souls in purgatory. In the cemetery chapel, the souls in purgatory participate in the narrative construction of a corporeality that welcomes and assimilates the suffering and immerses themselves in it (Fontanille & Zilberberg, 2004; Zilberberg, 2016). From an external view of the suffering subject, the body does not appear in suffering, but serene, and delimits spaces of encounter between the sacred and the earthly.