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Autobiography and Letters of a Spanish Nun.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vela Y Cueto, María.
- Series:
- The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: the Toronto Series
- The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: the Toronto Series ; v.51
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nuns-Spain-Biography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (207 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : Iter Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- When María Vela y Cueto (1561-1617) declared that God had personally ordered her to take only the Eucharist as food and to restore primitive dress and public penance in her aristocratic convent, the entire religious community, according to her confessor, "rose up in wrath." Yet, when Vela died, her peers joined with the populace to declare her a.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-86698-727-4
- OCLC:
- 957265019
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