The hija agustina de Santa Teresa: Mariana de San José (1568-1638) y el misticismo cotidiano del Barroco

Authors

  • Teresa Hancock-Parmer Roanoke College

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18192/rceh.v43i3.3963

Abstract

Mariana de San José, founder of the Augustinian Recollects, was a mystic and writer inspired by Teresa of Ávila. Mariana understood herself as a spiritual successor of the famous Carmelite saint, with whom she felt a personal connection. She considered her reform movement to be a continuation of Teresa’s work, and her writings are likewise bursting with mystical arrows, interior dwellings, and blazing fire. Mariana not only imitated, but also adapted the mysticism characteristic of Teresa. She communicated spiritual knowledge based primarily on daily convent life, and her texts demonstrate the concrete implementation of Teresian mysticism in Baroque monasticism.

 

 Mariana de San José, convent writing, mysticism, nuns, Baroque spirituality

Published

2020-10-24

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