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...