TY - JOUR AU - Calvo, Jose Antonio PY - 2023/05/17 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - The correspondence of María de Jesús (1560-1640), the Letradillo of Santa Teresa JF - Specula Revista de Humanidades y Espiritualidad JA - Specula VL - IS - 6 SE - Research Articles DO - 10.46583/specula_2023.1.1098 UR - https://revistas.ucv.es/specula/index.php/specula/article/view/1098 SP - 167-198 AB - <p>This research work attempts to interpret the traits of the spiritual life of María de Jesús (1560-1640), a Discalced Carmelite nun in Carmelo de Toledo, the Letradillo de Santa Teresa, based on the correspondence published by Father Joaquín de la Sagrada Familia on the opening of the cause for her canonization, in 1919. The eighty-eight letters that have come from the communication that, for twenty-five years, María de Jesús maintained with the Countess of Arcos, with her secretary, Luis Herrera, and with Andrea de Briones, Beatriz de Jesús, Inés Francos de León and the Countess of Paredes are only a selection of her work. To prevent them from being misunderstood, many texts were destroyed after reading. Other documents could surely be recovered from the archives of the Carmel convents of Ávila, Cuerva, Toledo or Madrid. In any case, although based on somewhat fragmentary assumptions, we will try to point out some supernatural features of María de Jesús to advance in the understanding of one of the most relevant figures of the second generation of Discalced Carmelite writers of the late sixteenth century and the first decades of the seventeenth.</p> ER -