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The Spiritual Marriage of Blessed Josefa do Sacramento: Analysis of an Eighteenth Century Inquisitorial Process

this article intends to analyse the inquisitorial process of Blessed Josefa do Sacramento, sister of The Third Order of Carmel, judged by the Holy Office of Inquisition of Lisbon in 1732, on charges of molinism. The aim is to contextualize the mentioned process in the religious field of the period as well as to analyse the relationships that blessed third sisters kept with confessors and spiritual directors and the heretical crimes which they were accused of and, finally, to analyse the set of religious practices of the blessed woman involved, linking them to the models of sanctity and the mystical literature widespread to believers.

Gender; Blessed Women; The Third Order Of Carmel; Molinism


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