Journey of five Capuchin nuns / Madre María Rosa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosa, Madre María, 1660-1716, author.

Contributor:

Victoria University (Toronto, Ont.). Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, publisher.

Iter (Toronto, Ont.), publisher.

Series:

Other voice in early modern Europe. Toronto series ; 1.

The other voice in early modern Europe : the Toronto series ; 1

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Women--Religious life.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 212 pages) : maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Iter Press, [2009]

Summary:

Journey of Five Capuchin Nuns contains all the elements of a riveting adventure story.Through the eyes of the Mother Abbess, María Rosa, the reader is taken along on this journey through wars, pirates, disease, travel on the high seas, and treacherous mountain passes in the Andes.

Contents:

Editor's Introduction

Maps

Journey of Five Capuchin Nuns

I: Some of the things that preceded the foundation license

II: The appointment of the nuns

III: How we left the cloister

IV: Our departure from Toledo

V: How we arrived in the city of Andujar

VI: All that took place until we arrived in Cadiz

VII: Things that happened before we were taken prisoners

VIII: Difficulties we had disembarking

IX: How the king sent us a visitor

X: From Lisbon to Yelbes

XI: From Yelbes to Badajoz

XII: All that happened before we returned to the Port of

XIII: Our arrival in Buenos Aires and events there

XIV: From the chácara to Mendoza and beyond

XV: From Santiago to Callao

XVI: Departure from Callao and arrival in Lima

XVII: All that took place until the day of the foundation.

Notes:

Translated from the Spanish manuscript, kept at the National Library of Madrid, written between 1713 and 1716 by Madre María Rosa (Josefa de León y Ayala, 1660-1716) and edited by Madre Josepha Victoria in 1722.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

077272055X

9780772720559

OCLC:

858867947