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Brianna Leavitt-Alcántara

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The Controversial Ecstasy of Sor María Teresa Aycinena

Alone at the Altar January 9, 2018 Brianna Leavitt-Alcántara

Chapter 5 explores the devotion and controversy surrounding Sor María Teresa Aycinena, a Carmelite nun, who in 1816 in the midst of the Independence wars, reportedly began to experience the stigmata, visions, mystical crucifixions, and miraculous images formed with the blood of her wounds. The powerful archbishop, priests, and lay devotees, many of them women, supported the Carmelite nun as a...