Francisca Josefa de la Concepción

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Francisca Josefa de la Concepción

Allegoric painting of Francisca Josefa de la Concepción, kneeling whilst receiving a mystic vision
An allegorical portrait of Sister Josefa del Castillo, c. 1813
BornFrancisca Josefa de Castillo y Guevara
(1671-10-06)6 October 1671
Tunja, New Kingdom of Granada, Viceroyalty of Peru, Spanish Empire
Died1742
Tunja, Viceroyalty of New Granada, Spanish Empire
OccupationNun
LanguageSpanish
Period1694—1742
SubjectChristian mysticism
Notable worksAfectos espirituales

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Francisca Josefa de la Concepción OSC (1671–1742) was a Criolla nun and mystic in the region of New Kingdom of Granada which later became Colombia. The first recorded woman writer of Colombia, her devotional and autobiographical writings were published posthumously.[1][2][3]

Her work has been studied by Dario Achury Valenzuela, Constanza Toquica, Ángela Inés Robledo, Antonio Gómez Restrepo [es], Elisa Mújica, José María Vergara y Vergara, and Daniel Alejandro Montes, among others, who recognize her as one of the most prominent writers of Colombian colonial literature.

Personal life

Francisca Josefa de Castillo y Guevara was born into a wealthy family on October 6, 1671 in Tunja, which at the time was part of the New Kingdom of Granada. Her father, Francisco Ventura de CastiIlo y Toledo, an hidalgo colonist originally from Illescas in Spain, was initially appointed General lieutenant of the city and then Mayor. Her mother, María Guevara Niño y Rojas, was a native criolla of Tunja of Basque descent. Francisca Josefa had three siblings whose names were Catalina and Pedro Antonio Diego. Her other sister's name remains unknown.

As a young woman she became a Poor Clare nun at the Royal Monastery of St. Clare, located in her town, where she spent the rest of her life within its walls. She was later appointed abbess of the community three times.

Selected works

  • Castillo, Francisca Josefa de la Concepción (1817). Castillo y Alarcon, Antonio María de (ed.). Vida de la V M Francisca Josefa de la Concepción... (autobiography) (in Spanish). Philadelphia: T H Palmer. OCLC 5356222.
  • — (1843). Gaitán, Benito (ed.). Sentimientos espirituales de la venerable Madre Francisca Josefa de la Concepción (compilation) (in Spanish). Bogotá: Imprenta de Bruno Espinosa de los Monteros. OCLC 8811302.
  • — (1968). Achury Valenzuela, Darío (ed.). Obras completas de la Madre Francisca Josefa de la Concepción (compilation) (in Spanish). Bogotá: Colombia, Bank of the Republic of. OCLC 1199914.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Deliquios del Divino Amor: El Amor Místico de la Madre Francisca Josefa del Castillo" [Raptures of Divine Love: The Mystical Love of Mother Francisca Josefa del Castillo]. Credencial Historia (in Spanish). Bogotá: Credencial (270). 1 June 2012. ISSN 0121-3296. OCLC 39236834. Archived from the original on 18 February 2013. Retrieved 7 December 2012.
  2. ^ Galaz Vivar, Alicia (1990). "Francisca Josefa de Castillo: Una Mística del Nuevo Mundo" [Raptures of Divine Love: The Mystical Love of Mother Francisca Josefa del Castillo] (PDF). Thesaurus (in Spanish). Bogotá: Caro and Cuervo Institute (95). ISSN 0040-604X. OCLC 5542799. Retrieved 7 December 2012.
  3. ^ McKnight, Kathryn Joy (1997). The Mystic of Tunja: The Writings of Madre Castillo, 1671-1742 (illustrated ed.). Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 9781558490741. OCLC 254597708. Retrieved 7 December 2012.

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