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Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas
Print version ISSN 0185-1276
Abstract
RUBIAL GARCIA, Antoni and BIENKO DE PERALTA, Doris. La más amada de Cristo Iconografía y culto de santa Gertrudis la Magna en la Nueva España. An. Inst. Investig. Estét [online]. 2003, vol.25, n.83, pp.05-54. ISSN 0185-1276.
Figurative images and the printing press were two of the means most extensively used by the Catholic Counter-Reformation in order to diseminate and foster the worshipment of saints. This paper explores the iconography and cult of a saint of whom little is known nowadays, in spite of being the subject of extensive printed literature during the Colonial period, whose representations were performed over canvasses, altarpieces and jewelry. St. Gertrude was adopted as Puebla's patron saint, and also as a devotee of the Christ-child. On acount of her German origins Gertrude, Abess of Ardent Heart and a promoter of a proper manner of dying, was also associated, with the Catholic struggle against Protestantism.