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• W139701144 abstract "Our grief and that of our father confessor was Beyond words since we had witnessed her leave the cloister only later to die in a foreign land. In the early part of the eighteenth century five nuns from Madrid began a journey that would take them halfway around the world. Their three-year saga, which lasted from 1710 until 1713, included a brush with Dutch corsairs during the Spanish War of Succession, a precarious ocean crossing, and a trek across the high Andes. The ultimate goal of these Spanish women was to establish a new Capuchin convent in Lima, Peru. Maria Rosa, the future mother abbess, wrote about their travels as a type of foundation narrative of their new community. Her Capuchin sister and traveling companion, Josepha Victoria, later edited and polished the document after the abbess's death. The fascinating manuscript, originally titled, Account of the Journey of Five Capuchin Nuns forms the backdrop of this study.1 This journey provides a unique lens to view death and dying in the colonial period. Furthermore, it is a vehicle to understand the firmly embedded belief system that these nuns carried with them to South America, particularly that of purgatory. Death loomed large on this long journey and the nuns witnessed it first hand several times before they reached their final destination in Lima, Peru. Among other instances, they saw the death of a Jesuit missionary onboard ship, they comforted one of their own sisters as she succumbed to terminal breast cancer and they observed the near fatal effects of a venomous snakebite on the deserted plains of the Pampas. Every one of these trials along the way shed light on how these European women dealt with death and dying, from their own pre-conceived notions on disease, healthcare and treatments to the details concerning funerals and death rituals in the New World. After all their tests, misfortunes, and hardships, four of the women finally emerged out of the Andes and into Chile. From there they boarded a ship to Lima, a Spanish colonial city that felt more like paradise than any other place they have visited in the New World. They then would pass on the knowledge gained from the journey to the novices of the new convent. One of the most important things that the Spanish pilgrims taught the Peruvian novices was how to understand death and dying. In essence, they viewed pain, suffering, and near death experiences as the pathway to heaven. The endurance of physical ailments was viewed as positive and a means to share in Christ's suffering, a tradition known as imitatio Christi. Those who could mimic some of His pain were seen as coming closer to God. Death freed the body from the soul, giving a nun time to unite with her heavenly husband. Both the religious and secular community admired this nearness to the spiritual realm. AU sectors of the population embraced women religious as potential intercessors in purgatory and their services were in high demand. Maria Rosa and her companions understood clearly the spiritual currency of their prayers. When possible they repaid the kindness bestowed on them throughout their travels by promising to keep their hosts in their prayers. Not only did they employ their unique position as intercessors along the route, but more importantly they brought this powerful skill to the new convent in Lima. Maria Rosa explains that before their arrival these young women were already living a very devout and religious lifestyle. Nevertheless, she emphasizes that they required specific guidance from their Spanish mothers to learn how to become an ideal nun: We needed to instruct them on several details concerning cloistered life, for although they were already very virtuous, living as if they were cloistered, there were still things regarding religion that they had not yet learned (Journey, 178). They could not become brides of Christ without help and guidance. Thus, the training would be provided by the hands-on teaching from the Spanish founders, and would be reinforced by examples from the account written by the abbess. …" @default.
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• W139701144 title "A Nun's Account of Death and Dying in a Foreign Land" @default.
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