Modeling Black Piety and Community Membership in the Virgin of Altagracia Medallions

In the third quarter of the eighteenth century, Santo Domingo archbishop Isidoro Rodríguez Lorenzo (s. 1767–1788) issued a decree officializing the day of the cult for the Virgin of Altagracia as January 21 and made it a feast of three crosses for the villa of Salvaleón de Higüey and its jurisdictio...

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Main Author: Jennifer Baez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-06-01
Series:Arts
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/10/2/37