Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles: la pervivencia de una imagen a través de los siglos

Abstract

The historiography of worship, devotions, and religious images revered during the centuries of Spanish administration in America rarely extends its view to the nineteenth century, when many of the religious practices surrounding certain sacred icons steadily survived. In particular, the religiosity expressed through festive forms had an equally important development as in the Old Regime and drew the attention and curiosity of nineteenth-century intellectuals. The account written by Ignacio Manuel Altamirano in 1880 on the feast of Our Lady of the Angels suggests the persistence of local forms of veneration at the time of the Mexican Republic. The present text contains some notes on this particular veneration and the sacred image that survived through the centuries.