Abstract

ROJAS GOMEZ, Juan Camilo. The Ignatian Compositio Loci in the Visions of Sister Francisca Josefa de la Concepción’s Vida (1671-1742). Bibliographica [online]. 2018, vol.1, n.2, pp.13-50.  Epub Dec 09, 2024. ISSN 2594-178X.  https://doi.org/10.22201/iib.bibliographica.2018.2.28.

Sister Francisca Josefa de la Concepción was a Poor Clare nun from Tunja, who wrote an autobiography known as Vida, following her Jesuit confessors’ orders. In her text she described some of the mystic visions and dreams she endured. This article proposes that due to her rapport with her confessors, the description of said visions followed the compositio loci technique taught by Ignatius of Loyola in the Spiritual Exercises. Hence, tracing her intellectual education, characterizing her works among the female conventual writing genre and exemplifying it within the Ignatian rhetoric, this article is a case study that presents new possibilities of analyzing the colonial visual culture on writing and orality, surpassing pictorial boundaries.

Keywords : Sister Francisca Josefa de la Concepcion; rhetoric; compositio loci; mystic visions; conventual writing; Society of Jesus; Tunja.

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