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Wounds of Love: The Mystical Marriage of Saint Rose of Lima

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Wounds of Love: The Mystical Marriage of Saint Rose of Lima - Graziano, Frank
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The Peruvian mystic St. Rose of Lima (Isabel Flores y Oliva, 1586-1617) was canonized in 1671 as the first saint of the New World and remains the object of widespread devotion today. In this engrossing new study, Frank Graziano uses the example of St. Rose to explore the meaning of female mysticism and the way in which saints are products of their cultures. Virginity, austerity, eucharistic devotion, incessant mortification, and mystical marriage to Christ characterized the devotional regimen that structured St. Rose's ...

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Wounds of Love: The Mystical Marriage of Saint Rose of Lima 2004, Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780195136401

Hardcover