Dos crucifijos desagraviados en templos de monasterios femeninos de México

Abstract

The article deals with two crucifixes found in different churches pertaining to nunneries in New Spain. The first was venerated in the church of Santa Mónica in Puebla de los Ángeles and the second was for public worship in the church of Santa Brígida in Mexico City. Both images share a distinctive characteristic: legends—recorded in printed works—were woven around them to insure or suggest they had been mistreated by Judaizers. However, these accounts do not coincide with Inquisition documents, which in the first case refer to a defendant accused of being “Jewish” and in the second, to the effigy itself.