Abstract
Between 1900 and 1901, Emilia Pardo Bazán wrote thirteen saints’ lives which were published in the weekly magazine Blanco y Negro. Her main goal was to reach a female public, to awaken their consciences, and present them with examples of prominent women. In Doña Emilia’s hands, the traditional hagiography is made to serve her feminist convictions: the saints become emblems of women’s emancipation, always based on an understanding of feminism that emphasizes education, free thinking for women, and inward reflection. By rewriting the lives of saints she was, using every means available to her, to change them into symbols of a progressive understanding of femininity without ever losing sight of hagiography’s essential Catholic origins.
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