Materiality and the Sacred: Ligna Crucis Relics in Santiago de Chile, 17th and 18th centuries

This paper sketches an interpretive approach to the scarce presence of relics in Santiago de Chile during the Colonial period. Taking stock of conventual sources and of some testamentary dispositions, the article delineates the discreet life that those sacred remains (and their associated visual obj...

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Main Author: Josefina Schenke Reyes
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia 2021-01-01
Series:Fronteras de la Historia
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Online Access:https://revistas.icanh.gov.co/index.php/fh/article/view/1408/1487