In the Old World, from the beginning of Christianity, the Virgin Mary and the martyrs were assumed to be intermediaries between God and mankind, and from the Middle Ages onwards, certain pious practices related to the saints and the divinity were incorporated: the veneration of their objects or anatomical parts...
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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...
This collective volume brings together a dozen works focused on three thematic lines: transatlantic journeys, the chronicles of the Indies and the colonial epic poetry, which are approached from different critical and interdisciplinary perspectives. They are analyzed from general aspects like the necessity of a pertinent philological annotation of 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 bibliographical study of Father Domingo Angulo includes a very good synthesized chapter regarding the extraordinary celebrations with which the beatification of Santa Rosa was celebrated. The text compiles the festive activities celebrated on the occasion of the beatification of Rosa de Santa María that have been described in different...