El lenguaje ascético-místico en el escrito hagiográfico sobre sor María

« previous chapter | next chapter »

Iscriviti alla newsletter

DC Field	Value
dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_1112
dc.contributor.author	Zatkajová Katerina
dc.title	El lenguaje ascético-místico en el escrito hagiográfico sobre sor María de Jesús Tomellín (el ‘lirio de Puebla’)
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	it
dc.description.abstract	María de Jesús (1582-1637) was one of the most distinguished nuns in colonial Mexico, Puebla de los Ángeles. As prescript by the standards of an exemplary spiritual life, she thoroughly followed the rules of austerity and penitence. Therefore, after her death, she was turned into a candidate for the beatification, even though the process has not yet been concluded. The Life of the Respectable Nun Sor María de Jesús Tomellín, written by her Italian hagiographer Félix de Jesús María, served for the mentioned cause. The life of the Conceptionist nun was rooted in the effort of achieving a permanent mystical union with God. This paper focuses on the analysis of the mystical language, especially the rhetorical devices which deal with the category of ‘the ineffable’. The secret of the mystical life is, however, often depicted with symbols and metaphors that are taken from profane erotic imaginary. One of those is the union of pleasure of pain and love in the herida de amor, the ‘wound of love’ in the heart of Sor María, which connects her to the symbols of saint Teresa of Ávila and her predecessors.
dc.relation.ispartof	Library of Rassegna iberistica
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.issued	2017-07-03
dc.dateAccepted	2016-12-14
dc.dateSubmitted	2015-07-13
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-164-5/el-lenguaje-ascetico-mistico-en-el-escrito-hagiogr/
dc.identifier.doi	10.14277/6969-163-8/RiB-5-86
dc.identifier.issn	2610-8844
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9360
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-164-5
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-163-8
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Asceticism
dc.subject	Asceticism
dc.subject	Experience
dc.subject	Experience
dc.subject	Ineffable language
dc.subject	Ineffable language
dc.subject	Language
dc.subject	Language
dc.subject	Mystical symbols
dc.subject	Mystical symbols
dc.subject	Mysticism
dc.subject	Mysticism

Chapter
open access peer reviewed

El lenguaje ascético-místico en el escrito hagiográfico sobre sor María de Jesús Tomellín (el ‘lirio de Puebla’)

Katerina Zatkajová Univerzita Karlova, Praha, Česká Republika

VIEW PDF DOWNLOAD PDF

abstract

María de Jesús (1582-1637) was one of the most distinguished nuns in colonial Mexico, Puebla de los Ángeles. As prescript by the standards of an exemplary spiritual life, she thoroughly followed the rules of austerity and penitence. Therefore, after her death, she was turned into a candidate for the beatification, even though the process has not yet been concluded. The Life of the Respectable Nun Sor María de Jesús Tomellín, written by her Italian hagiographer Félix de Jesús María, served for the mentioned cause. The life of the Conceptionist nun was rooted in the effort of achieving a permanent mystical union with God. This paper focuses on the analysis of the mystical language, especially the rhetorical devices which deal with the category of ‘the ineffable’. The secret of the mystical life is, however, often depicted with symbols and metaphors that are taken from profane erotic imaginary. One of those is the union of pleasure of pain and love in the herida de amor, the ‘wound of love’ in the heart of Sor María, which connects her to the symbols of saint Teresa of Ávila and her predecessors.

Accepted

Dec. 14, 2016

Submitted

July 13, 2015

Language

ISBN (PRINT)

978-88-6969-164-5

ISBN (EBOOK)

978-88-6969-163-8

Keywords: Language • Asceticism • Mystical symbols • Experience • Ineffable language • Mysticism

permalink: http://doi.org/10.14277/6969-163-8/RiB-5-86

Copyright: © 2017 Katerina Zatkajová. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

References to this chapter

How to cite