The Fabric of Saintly Proof: Leocadia of Toledo from Orrente to Calderón
| Autor: | Arantza Mayo, Peter Cherry |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Cultural Studies
Literature and Literary Theory Archbishop media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences SAINT Art Ancient history CONQUEST Visual arts Alliance Monarchy Chapel Performance art 0509 other social sciences 050904 information & library sciences computer Patron saint computer.programming_language media_common |
| Zdroj: | Bulletin of Spanish Studies. 93:1339-1370 |
| ISSN: | 1478-3428 1475-3820 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/14753820.2016.1224500 |
| Popis: | St Leocadia, a fourth-century Toledan Christian virgin and patron saint of the city, miraculously emerged from a sepulchre in the presence of Ildephonsus, Archbishop of Toledo, and the Visigothic King Recesvintus, in the 7th century. After this wondrous event, in which a fragment of her veil was cut as proof of her public visitation, her body was removed from Toledo to be preserved from the Muslim conquest, taken to Flanders and eventually repatriated to her home town at the request of Philip II as the Lutheran threat to the Spanish northern territories escalated. A wave of literature and images concerning her figure was produced in the wake of three events: the return of her relics to Toledo in 1587, those of Ildephonsus in 1596 and the inauguration of the chapel of Our Lady of the Tabernacle, also in Toledo, in 1616. The following essays consider why and how this virgin saint became instrumental in cementing the alliance of Church and Monarchy as well as buttressing the Archbishop of Toledo’s st... |
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