Abstract

SARMIENTO ZUNIGA, Mario Carlos. A miracle portent in period of reforms. The image of Immaculate Conception of Juquila in creation a secular devotion. Estud. hist. novohisp [online]. 2017, n.56, pp.26-39. ISSN 2448-6922.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehn.2017.01.001.

In the late eighteenth century New Spain Church participated a period of reforms that sought to implement a spirituality far from syncretism and wants to renew its structure, favoring the Episcopal projects in line with the enlightened thoughts and indications under monarchical. The case studied in this paper reflects the efforts of Bishop Jose Gregorio Alonso de Ortigosa to implement reforms in the diocese of Antequera, south of New Spain, by the cult of Our Lady of Juquila, seating veneration through print chronic effigy and construction of their sanctuary, same his successor bishop Omaña and Sotomayor would consecrate in 1794.

Keywords : Oaxaca; Juquila; Antequera; Church; 18th century; Sanctuary; Devotion.