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Corónica Moralizada del Orden de San Agustín en el Perú, by Fray Antonio de la Calancha, is a complex work that unfortunately, due to its originality and extension, has been little studied and often misunderstood. The first part that is shared and commented here is a chronicle that combines the...
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Andrés Ferrer de Valdecebro nació en Albarracín (Teruel) en 1620, en el seno de una familia instruida en la que encontró los primeros estímulos para las letras. Tras ingresar en la Orden de Predicadores y obtener el grado de Maestro en Sagrada Teología en el convento madrileño de Santo Tomás,...
Fray Antonio González Acuña, Bishop of Caracas, was the procurator of the cause of beatification of Rosa de Lima in Rome. This Lima’s native dressed early the habit of Santo Domingo in the great convent of the Rosario. There he became a professor and, later, at the Royal University of...
The popularity of the santarrosina legend crossed the borders, from Latin and Spanish of the territories of varied European languages. The Portuguese was not the exception as evidenced by the volume of Leonarda Gil da Gama, pseudonym of sor Madalena de Gloria. The famous Portuguese nun, "native of the sierra...
The Dominican Fray Jacinto Parra is a fundamental character for the consolidation of the santarrosino cult in the New and the Old World. His is the Spanish translation of the Vita mirabilis of his fellow Leonardo Hansen, but also compiled the important volume entitled Rosa laureada entre los santos, epitalamios...
The Dominican fray Jacinto Parra was widely involved in the santarrosino process. To him we owe the compilation of sermons and descriptions of festivals entitled Rosa laureada and, of course, the translation of the famous hagiography of Leonardo Hansen. Although Hansen's hagiography is not the first and Parra's translation does...
The Editio Princeps of the Vita Mirabilis et Mors Pretiosa of the Dominican Fray Leonardo Hansen is from 1664. His work, which was part of the process for the beatification and subsequent canonization of Rosa de Lima, is the canonical hagiography of a santarrosino corpus that - for the second...
There were many quills that narrated the wonderful life of Rosa de Santa María. The prototype of all these worthy narrations is the highbrow work of Fray Leonardo Hansen, which has numerous editions and translations. This allowed different Dominican authors - around the world - such as Lorenzo Lucchesini (Italy),...
The hagiographies of nuns proliferated in the New Spain’s XVII century and the Jesuits were the paladins in terms of these novelistic manifestations. Inspired by the personal ambitions of the authors for cultivating holiness in unsuspected people, the texts, part medieval exemplum, part fantastic novel, wove stories with excessive miracles...
Approved by the highest and elite ecclesiastical hierarchs of the late New Spain’s XVII century, Los prodigios de la omnipotencia y milagros de la gracia en la vida de la venerable sierva de Dios Catarina de San Juan exploited the docere, delectare, movere evangelizer in the form of a hagiographic...