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- Title
Santidad y martirio en testimonios jesuitas y franciscanos sobre la cristianización del noroeste novohispano. Siglos XVII y XVIII.
- Authors
de la Torre Curiel, José Refugio
- Abstract
Based on the detailed examination of writings about missionaries who died in the area of Pimería Alta (Sonora), and supported by maps of the area, this study explores how Jesuits and Franciscans worked to construct an image of northwestern New Spain as a geographic space successfully incorporated into Christianity. It elucidates how, in distinct contexts and epochs, and through the use of narrative processes that described the links that -through martyrdom or the uniting of places and peoples under the patronage of the Apostles and other saints- Jesuits and Franciscans configured a geography with a key common denominator; namely, the triumph of the missionaries' cause. In a region characterized by dissimilar conditions, promoting stories of sanctity and martyrdom became an important mechanism that allowed the clergy to promote, to diverse audiences, distinct proposals for the identification and organization of northwestern New Spain.
- Subjects
CHRISTIAN missionaries; JESUITS; FRANCISCANS
- Publication
Relaciones: Estudios de Historia y Sociedad, 2016, Vol 37, Issue 145, p63
- ISSN
0185-3929
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.24901/rehs.v37i145.26