The Beginnings of Santa María de Guadalupe and the Direction of Fourteenth-Century Castile

Linehan, Peter

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“…From the mid-1320s, the Castilian crown was interested in promoting the Extremaduran sanctuary of the Virgin of Guadalupe. (Linehan 1985;De Paula Cañas Gálvez 2012). Between 1335 and 1338 and with the support of the king and the blessing of Pope Benedict XII, Cardinal Don Pedro Gómez Barroso built a church dedicated to the cult of the Virgin of Guadalupe, replacing the primitive hermitage (Pérez de Tudela 1982, p. 273).…”

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“A Desora Desperto y vio una Grand Claridat”: The Role of Dreams and Light in the Construction of a Multi-Confessional Audience of the Miracles of the Virgin of Guadalupe

Sánchez¹

2019

Religions

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This paper examines the religious proselytizing agenda of the order of Saint Jerome that ruled the Extremaduran sanctuary of the Virgin of Guadalupe since 1389. To this end, I analyze how the Hieronymite’s used literary motifs such as dreams and light in the codex of the Miracles of the Virgin of Guadalupe to create a multi-confessional audience for their collection of miracles. I contend that these motifs were chosen because they were key elements in the construction of a particular image of the Virgin that could appeal to pilgrims of different faiths. Through them, the Hieronymites evoked in the minds of Muslim pilgrims and Christian captives beyond the sea the imagery and rhetoric of Sufi devotional literature and Islamic hagiography, in order to create a vision of the Virgin that was able to compete with the more important Islamic devotional figures: the Prophet, Sufi masters and charismatic saints. Finally, I explore how the possible influence of North African devotional models, such as the Shadhiliyya order or the hagiography of the Tunisian saint, Aisha al-Manubiyya, suggests that the aims of the monastic authors of this Marian miracles collection went far beyond the conversion of Castilian Muslims, aiming at the transformation of the Extremaduran Marian sanctuary of Guadalupe into a Mediterranean devotional center.

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“A Desora Desperto y vio una Grand Claridat”: The Role of Dreams and Light in the Construction of a Multi-Confessional Audience of the Miracles of the Virgin of Guadalupe

Sánchez¹

2019

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“…The original church was constructed in 1340 [2]. This site was built to commemorate the apparition of the Virgin Mary to a local shepherd named Gil Cordero in a nearby valley [3]. It is commonly accepted that the Monastery was constructed in the same place where Gil Cordero found the wooden sculpture of the Virgin Mary [4].…”

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Religious Experiences of Travellers Visiting the Royal Monastery of Santa María de Guadalupe (Spain)

Ramírez

Fernández

2018

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The Royal Monastery of Guadalupe has been one of the most important religious destinations in Spain since the 14th century, when the black wooden sculpture of the Virgin Mary (sculpted in the 1st century AD) was found. It was declared a World Heritage Site by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural organization (UNESCO) in 1993 and is presently a tourism attraction of international interest. It is visited by more than 60,000 tourists annually, including pilgrims and other people interested in the cultural and natural heritage of the area. The aim of this study was to decipher ways that religiousness is experienced by tourists with different motivations, i.e., to better understand how religion is linked to tourism through embodied notions of godliness in different modalities of tourism. A total of 242 visitors were interviewed in the summer of 2017. They were asked about the main motivations for their visits, which were classified into five groups (religious, cultural, environmental, social, and educational reasons) and used as latent variables in a path structural equation model (SEM). The model showed strong predictive power (R 2 = 87.5%) reporting a significant positive influence of religious, cultural, and environmental motivations on religious tourism in this region.

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“…266-276]. De modo que la leyenda, aunque tal vez tenga algun fondo historico, no puede resolvernos el enigma acerca de la cronologia y de los origenes precisos del culto a la Virgen de Guadalupe.6Linehan (1985a), pp. 288-289.…”

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Milagros, demandas y prosperidad: el Monasterio Jerónimo de Guadalupe, 1389–1571

Agelán

1998

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RESUMENEn este artículo se estudia la primera y larga fase de desarrollo económico del monasterio Jerónimo de Guadalupe, probablemente el más rico de España a comienzos de la Edad Moderna. El éxito económico de esta casa monacal se basó, ante todo, en la inteligente explotación que sus rectores efectuaron del santuario mañano de las Villuercas. Los dirigentes ierónimos consiguieron incrementar el prestigio y la fama de aquél mediante un eficaz sistema propagandístico cuyo principal objetivo consistía en la máxima difusión de los «milagros» de Nuestra Señora por parte de miles de peregrinos que eran atraídos a Guadalupe mediante diversos incentivos. Simultáneamente, los gestores económicos de la «casa» lograron ampliar y consolidar una eficaz y tupida red de demandaderos por toda la Corona de Castilla que recolectaba anualmente una elevadísima suma de dinero. En suma, el monasterio de Guadalupe fue durante más de siglo y medio una próspera «empresa» de servicios espirituales. ABSTRACTThe first long period of economic development of the Hieronymite Monastery of Guadalupe, probably the wealthiest in Spain during the early Modern Age, is analysed in this paper. The economic success of this monastic house was primarily based on the brilliant exploitation its rectors implemented of the Marian sanctuary of the ViUuercas. The Hieronymite leaders achieved an increasing prestige and fame for the former through an efficient publicity system its main aim being the máximum diffusion of Our Lady's «miracles» by thousands of pilgrims who were attracted to Guadalupe by means of various Revista de Historia Económica Año XVI Primavera-Verano 1998, N.° 2.

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The Beginnings of Santa María de Guadalupe and the Direction of Fourteenth-Century Castile

Cited by 6 publications

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“A Desora Desperto y vio una Grand Claridat”: The Role of Dreams and Light in the Construction of a Multi-Confessional Audience of the Miracles of the Virgin of Guadalupe

“A Desora Desperto y vio una Grand Claridat”: The Role of Dreams and Light in the Construction of a Multi-Confessional Audience of the Miracles of the Virgin of Guadalupe

Religious Experiences of Travellers Visiting the Royal Monastery of Santa María de Guadalupe (Spain)

Milagros, demandas y prosperidad: el Monasterio Jerónimo de Guadalupe, 1389–1571

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