Autor(es): William Taylor
Resumen:
Abstract: Fed by imperial ambitions to supervise and reform, Mexico’s eighteenth-century Information Age produced prodigious amounts of administrative and judicial documentation, including investigations into new miracle claims and the operations of shrines that were attracting more than local attention. Most of the shrines to miraculous images and titles of Mary and Christ that date from the early colonial period became even more popular and institutionalized in the eighteenth century, but few new devotions emerged and spread for long under the watchful eye of Bourbon administrators and royalist prelates. Several devotions that were suppressed left behind a record of surveillance that sometimes casts a glimmer of light on the origin and on self-starting lay devotion, but they ended too soon to reveal much about how such devotions might have developed. A successful new devotion that has left a different documentary record at the beginning is the veneration of the Divina Pastora (the Virgin as Good Shepherdess) in the port of Veracruz.