Sancti Viatores: Predicaciones, visiones, apariciones y traslado de reliquias en Andalucía (siglos V-XVII)

Abstract

Hagiographic studies have turned their attention to a particular type of homo viator: saints. Either in vita or post mortem, saints helped in the configuration of cultural centers, pilgrimage itineraries and sacred spaces by means of their tangible presence, their capacity of producing miracles, through their representative or real/actual relics or through sacred bodily remains. This paper focuses on the analysis of those phenomena that adopted various dimensions and it also values the function and the meaning given by the medieval and modern society to the doctrinal and religious discourse of ecclesiastic people and to the practices of popular Christian religiosity of the Andalusian region among the 5th and 17th centuries.

Keywords

• saints;
• apparitions
• vi - sions
• relics
• Andalusian religiosity
• visions
• saints