"San Juan is Catholic": The Hijas de María in Puerto Rico's Parishes and Streets, 1872–1918

The Hijas de María, a global Catholic laywomen’s organization, were active in Puerto Rico from the end of Spanish rule through North American rule. Their organizational structure and their pieties buttressed the Church’s few pastors and, after the North American invasion, its new hierarchy. In the s...

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Main Author: Ulrickson, Maria Cecilia (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Soc. 2024
In: US catholic historian
Year: 2024, Volume: 42, Issue: 2, Pages: 15-37
IxTheo Classification:CG Christianity and Politics
CH Christianity and Society
KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history
KBR Latin America
KDB Roman Catholic Church
NBJ Mariology
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Summary:The Hijas de María, a global Catholic laywomen’s organization, were active in Puerto Rico from the end of Spanish rule through North American rule. Their organizational structure and their pieties buttressed the Church’s few pastors and, after the North American invasion, its new hierarchy. In the space that the institutional Church could not fill, the Hijas’ devotions provided the laity with new, feminized paths for holiness. The devotional life of the Hijas de María developed within new global currents in the Church, including increasing Roman influence and a greater focus on children and their potential sanctity. This is also a story of how Puerto Rican Catholic women met modernity and its secular influences and claimed the island for their own and the interests of religion and the Church.
ISSN:1947-8224
Contains:Enthalten in: US catholic historian
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1353/cht.2024.a926024