Colonial Saints: Discovering the Holy in the Americas 1500-1800 Book

	List of Illustrations
	Preface
	Introduction
1	St. Anne Imagery and Maternal Archetypes in Spain and Mexico	3
2	Querying the Spirit: The Rules of the Haitian Lwa	31
3	Diego de Ocana's Hagiography of New and Renewed Devotion in Colonial Peru	51
4	Old Bones and Beautiful Words: The Spiritual Contestation between Shaman and Jesuit in the Guarani Missions	77
5	St. Anthony in Portuguese America: Saint of the Restoration	99
6	Francisco Losa and Gregorio Lopez: Spiritual Friendship and Identity Formation on the New Spain Frontier	115
7	In the Shadow of the Cloister: Representations of Female Holiness in New France	129
8	Isaac Jogues: From Martyrdom to Sainthood	153
9	Martyred by the Saints: Quaker Executions in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts	169
10	St. Palafox: Metaphorical Images of Disputed Sainthood	193
11	Writing a Relic: The Uses of Hagiography in New France	211
12	Iroquois Virgin: The Story of Catherine Tekakwitha in New France and New Spain	235
13	"Redeemer of America": Rosa de Lima (1586-1617), the Dynamics of Identity, and Canonization	251
14	Mexico's Virgin of Guadalupe in the Seventeenth Century: Hagiography and Beyond	277
	Select Bibliography	299
	Contributors	305