Devotees Participate in Story and Painting: Bernardo Alcocer’s Novena to Madre Santísima de la Luz
In 1737, Jesuits in Mexico City published texts recounting the origin of a new painting and advocation of the Virgin Mary, Most Holy Mother of Light. In the following decades, many devotional texts dedicated to this advocation were composed in Mexico, one of which was a novena by Bernardo Alcocer. P...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2023
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| In: |
The catholic historical review
Year: 2023, Volume: 109, Issue: 1, Pages: 107-131 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Mexico
/ Jesuits
/ Marian devotion (motif)
/ Iconography
/ Novena
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| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality CD Christianity and Culture CE Christian art KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBR Latin America KDB Roman Catholic Church |
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novenas
B Madre Santísima de la Luz B text and image B Bernardo Alcocer B religious discipline |
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| Summary: | In 1737, Jesuits in Mexico City published texts recounting the origin of a new painting and advocation of the Virgin Mary, Most Holy Mother of Light. In the following decades, many devotional texts dedicated to this advocation were composed in Mexico, one of which was a novena by Bernardo Alcocer. Partly following a meditational tradition, this work was exceptional in encouraging practitioners, in prayers across nine days, to simultaneously participate in the origin narrative and enter the visual elements of the painting, such that thereby a holy story and the iconography of a painting could be integrated into practitioners’ religious discipline. |
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| ISSN: | 1534-0708 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The catholic historical review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/cat.2023.0004 |