Abstract
Ana Rodríguez de Castro y Aramburu turned an abused woman invisible so that her husband could not beat her. She also used her menstrual blood to fake stigmata. She did with another woman “what a man can do in this manner with a woman,” and she put the host in her own “private parts.” The Inquisition found her guilty of being an ilusa (one tricked by the devil into believing that she had experienced true mysticism) and an alumbrada (one who engages in internal prayer and meditation). Nora E. Jaffary's fascinating book begins and ends with the story of Aramburu, an example of a “false mystic.” Using Inquisition sources, Jaffary works to uncover the ways in which Mexican mystics viewed their own practices, and she argues that Aramburu and the other mystics perceived themselves not as people resisting the hegemony of the Catholic Church, but rather as true believers doing the bidding of God.
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