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Author Gunnarsdóttir, Ellen, 1967-

Title Mexican karismata : the baroque vocation of Francisca de los Angeles, 1674-1744 / Ellen Gunnarsdóttir
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 305 pages) : illustrations
Series Engendering Latin America
Engendering Latin America.
Contents Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1. Baroque Querétaro; The Emerging City; Women in Baroque Querétaro; Part 2. The HolyWoman; Heresy; The Evangelist; Part 3. The Foundress; Francisca and Margil; The Beaterio of Santa Rosa, 1699-1712; Mid-Life, 1711-1712; Part 4. Old Age; Foundation; Eclipse; Bourbon Querétaro; Epilogue; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index; In the Engendering Latin America series
Summary Mexican Karismata chronicles the life of Francisca de los Ángeles (1674-1744), the daughter of a poor Creole mother and mestizo father who became a renowned holy woman in her native city of Querétaro, Mexico, during the high Baroque period. As a precocious young visionary and later as the headmistress of an important religious institution for women, Francisca actively partook in the project to revitalize the Catholic cult in New Spain's northern regions led by her mentors, the Spanish missionaries of the Congregation for the Propagation of Faith. Her copious correspondence, containing hundreds of unedited letters, documents the personal experience of popular Catholicism during the high Baroque period in New Spain. Francisca's journey to God did not follow prescribed hagiographical guidelines, drawing its inspiration instead from an eclectic mix of the doctrines of the Counter-Reformation, medieval spirituality, and local traditions. Her ecstatic apostolate to the dead and living often bordered on heresy but found acceptance and came to fruition under the protection of Querétaro's ecclesiastical and secular elite. Her life shows how mystic rapture and sociability joined in this colonial variation of Early Modern Catholicism and demonstrates the remarkable vitality and openness of urban spirituality in the New World
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-298) and index
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Subject Angeles, Francisca de los, 1674-1744.
SUBJECT Angeles, Francisca de los, 1674-1744
Angeles, Francisca de los, 1674-1744 fast
Subject Catholics -- Mexico -- Querétaro -- Biography
Catholic women -- Mexico -- Querétaro -- Biography
RELIGION -- Christianity -- Catholic.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Religious.
Catholic women
Catholics
Mexico -- Querétaro
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2004052616
ISBN 0803204477
9780803204478
1280510129
9781280510120
9786610510122
6610510121