En el rico tapiz de la tradición cristiana, ningún símbolo resuena más profundamente que la Santa Cruz. Una vez instrumento de sufrimiento, se ha convertido en faro de esperanza, redención y amor inquebrantable. "La Novena de la Santa Cruz" te invita a un sagrado viaje de nueve días de oración, reflexión y despertar espiritual. Este libro devocional, dedicado a la Fiesta de la Exaltación de la Santa Cruz, entrelaza la sabiduría ancestral de las Escrituras, los primeros padres de la Iglesia, las oraciones de los santos y las voces de los creyentes modernos. Explora el poder transformador de la Cruz a través de contemplaciones diarias, meditaciones y oraciones. Desde comprender el significado histórico de la Cruz hasta abrazar su poder redentor en tu propia vida, cada día te acerca al abrazo divino del Crucificado. Descubre cómo la Cruz se erige como testigo silencioso del valor de los mártires, las reflexiones de los santos y la devoción de innumerables almas a través de los tiempos. Abraza este sagrado compañero en tu peregrinaje espiritual. Deja que los susurros del Espíritu Santo te guíen mientras abres tu corazón a los misterios del sufrimiento, el perdón, el amor, la esperanza y la sanación. Empieza hoy tu viaje con "La Novena de la Santa Cruz" y permite que el poder transformador de la Cruz ilumine tu camino.

This book examines the story of the ‘discovery of America’ through the prism of the history of the Franciscans, a socio-religious movement with a unique doctrine of voluntary poverty. The Franciscans rapidly developed global dimensions, but their often paradoxical relationships with poverty and power offer an alternate account of global history. Through this lens, Julia McClure offers a deeper history of colonialism, not only by extending its chronology, but also by exploring the powerful role of ambivalence in the emergence of colonial regimes. Other topics discussed include the legal history of property, the complexity and politics of global knowledge networks, the early (and neglected) history of the Near Atlantic, and the transatlantic inquisition, mysticism, apocalypticism, and religious imaginations of place.

The great many shrines of New Spain have become long-lived sites of shared devotion and contestation across social groups. They have provided a lasting sense of enchantment, of divine immanence in the present, and a hunger for epiphanies in daily life. This is a story of consolidation and growth during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, rather than one of rise and decline in the face of early stages of modernization. Based on research in a wide array of manuscript and printed primary sources, and informed by recent scholarship in art history, religious studies, anthropology, and history, this is the first comprehensive study of shrines and miraculous images in any part of early modern Latin America.

Quill and Cross in the Borderlands examines nearly four hundred years of history, folklore, literature, and art concerning the seventeenth-century Spanish nun and writer Sor María de Jesús de Ágreda, identified as the legendary “Lady in Blue” who miraculously appeared to tribes in colonial-era New Mexico and taught them the rudiments of the Catholic faith. Sor María, an author of mystical Marian works, became renowned not only for her alleged spiritual travel from her cloister in Spain to the New World, but also for her writing, studied and implemented by Franciscans on both sides of the ocean. Working from original historical accounts, archival research, and a wealth of literature on the legend and the historical figure alike, Anna M. Nogar meticulously examines how and why the legend and the person became intertwined in Catholic consciousness and social praxis. In addition to the influence of the narrative of the Lady in Blue in colonial Mexico, Nogar addresses Sor María’s importance as an author of spiritual texts that influenced many spheres of New Spanish and Spanish society. Quill and Cross in the Borderlands focuses on the reading and interpretation of her works, especially in New Spain, where they were widely printed and disseminated. Over time, in the developing folklore of the Indo-Hispano populations of the present-day U.S. Southwest and the borderlands, the historical Sor María and her writings virtually disappeared from view, and the Lady in Blue became a prominent folk figure, appearing in folk stories and popular histories. These folk accounts drew the Lady in Blue into the present day, where she appears in artwork, literature, theater, and public ritual. Nogar’s examination of these contemporary renderings leads to a reconsideration of the ambiguities that lie at the heart of the narrative. Quill and Cross in the Borderlands documents the material legacy of a legend that has survived and thrived for hundreds of years, and at the same time rediscovers the historical basis of a hidden writer. This book will interest scholars and researchers of colonial Latin American literature, early modern women writers, folklore and ethnopoetics, and Mexican American cultural studies.