Autobiography and Letters of a Spanish Nun

Author : Jane Tar,Susan Diane Laningham

Paperback

Published : Tuesday 1 November 2016

ISBN : 9780866985598

Price : €32.76

Description

When MarA-a Vela y Cueto (1561â?"1617) declared that God had personally ordered herA to take only the Eucharist as food and to restore primitive dress and public penance in herA aristocratic convent, theA entire religious community, according to her confessor, â?orose upA in wrath.â?? Yet, when Vela died, her peers joined with the populace to declare her a saint.A In her autobiography and personal letters, VelaA speaks candidly of the obstacles, perils,A and rewards of re-negotiating piety in a convent where devotion to God was no longerA expressed through rigorous asceticism. Velaâ?Ts experience, told in herA own words, revealsA her shrewd understanding of the persuasive power of a womanâ?Ts body.

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