The devout woman Dolores
Goya. There was no remedy (1799)
Maria de los Dolores López known as the devout woman Dolores, was condemned in Seville for the Inquisition on August 24, 1781.
Although his parents were pious Christians, she did not continue his example and at the age of twelve it escaped already of house to go away to live with his confessor. But to this one the conscience began soon to remorderle. He died four years later, terrified by the condemnation that the Devil had him reserved by so serious sin.
Dolores was blind, but beautiful and intelligent; he learned to read and write without nobody teaching it. He wanted to enter like organist a convent of Carmelite, but it was not admitted. Then it moved to Marchena where it took the devout woman habits. Nevertheless, as the goat always pulls to the mount, Dolores repeated the history and again he got involved with his confessor, in this case a priest of Lucena. This time, the authority took letters in the matter and the man was detained and imprisoned, being later imprisoned in a closing ceremony convent to avoid him to fall down in new temptations.
Deprived of his lover, Dolores returned to Seville where he persisted in his bad habit of supporting sexual small waves with members of the clergy, what then was not well seen (today neither, although it usually do the fat sight).
In this epoch witch reputation begun being created. It is said that it was preparing strange concoctions and that, by virtue of an agreement with the Devil, it was capable of putting eggs; but also that had big prestige between the people, since it was possessing divination talent and, being a blind woman, it was capable of seeing what others did not see.
Don Marcelino pushes back the ideas that of her the people had, including his beauty:
“All these accidents are not calculated badly to excite the commiseration; a pity that they all are false ones, since the devout woman Dolores was not enchanting, but a theoretical illuminated woman, follower and practice of the molinosismo, beastly messed up in customs so holiness layer, and that that for his beauty could not excite big passions, since, in addition to blind woman, it was the blackest, disgusting and more horrible than the old woman Cañizares del Coloquio of the dogs.”
[The victims of the LOGSE touch the linkage to find out on that thing about the Conference of the dogs]
Twelve years, after returning to Seville, Pains it was denounced by one of his loving clergymen, being both arrested. She was accused of witchcraft.
Goya. The prisoner (1797-1798)
The devout woman denied the accusation, affirming to support habitual dealing with the Virgin and to have married in the mismísmo sky Jesus Christ, being witnesses of the wedding San Jose and San Agustín. These solid arguments did not convince the inquisitors, who condemned it to death. Dolores listened impassively to the judgment and made sure that he would die like martyr, but that to the third day God would go down to demonstrate his innocence.
To end, I transfer again the word to don Marcelino, who narrates marvelously the circuntancias of the execution of Pains:
“The devout woman went out to the car with white scapular and cogroove of flames and identical devils, who were increasing the horror of his strange figure. A minimal friar who was going close to her, P. Francisco Javier González, was exhorting the bystanders to whom they were asking God for the conversion of that hard sinner. Throughout prayers and lamentations sounded; only the devout woman was remaining impassive, contributing his blindness to the unchangeable of his physiognomy.
Finished the reading of the process, it raised to the pulpit the P. Teodomiro Díaz of the Vega, of the Oratory, famous person in Seville for his piety and spiritual retreats, and it did brief conversation to the people, showing the mercy of the Holy Office and begging again the prayers of the assistants so that God was moved to pity of that one unfortunate, moving his hard heart to atonement.
It was necessary to gag the devout woman so that it was not blaspheming and the P. Vega went so far as to threaten it with the crucifix. And it does not seem but this sublime rage worked suddenly in that arid spirit, because the devout woman was seen prorrumpir suddenly in tears and, scarcely come to the square of San Francisco, to ask for confession in high voices, which mitigated the rigor of the sorrow and dilated some hours the torture. He died with samples of sincere repentance, asking all for pardon for the bad examples of his life. His corpse was hung and later delivered to the flames.”
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> Witch, heretic or a too liberal woman for his epoch?
Too liberal for the church (yes, already I know that it was not really a question). Then and now. We go, small is Rouco.
Did they burn a woman capable of putting eggs? Better to have done a broth …
And in being San Agustín and San Jose witnesses, sight not to be believed in his marriage …
I have read fascinated all this history. I believed that it was going to end in a different way. For example, when the minimal Franciscan was going next to you, I was afraid seriously that it was seducing it, because something should have this woman when, being a blind woman, alone it was she who had learned to read, and being also so horrifying, it had managed to take to the folding bed four or five priests. Very much I am afraid that D. Marcelino allowed to take of the fantasy or the fact is that, truly, the need for the preteas was enormous. Also another two passages have impressed me: that one in which this so famous preacher in Seville “was going so far as to threaten it with the crucifix” (to break it in the head? to kneel it in one of his blind eyes?) and this other in which one affirms that the same preacher chatted to the presents on the mercy of the Holy Office. Anyway, a very edifying history, one looks where it looks. Cordial greetings.
pkt: Sometimes it seems that the Church continues in the XVIIIth century
Alberto: I would have put a farm
Vailima: it is seen that the word of the saints was not enough to the inquisitors
Elizabeth: that thing about the threat with the crucifix is what more has entertained me of the history
They give me desire of turning back in the time and turning into his guardian angel, or in his best friend …
These histories excite me, he already knows it
pué I have read that was beautiful and intelligent in spite of being a blind woman. This text to summarize, has more pitfalls than a minefield trasparentes, enchanting,
As it was written by the same one that considered her to be, judged it remained.
We have listened to not even a complaint because they were burning it after hanging it, if a good Christian had been sure that we would have heard her saying something,
I fix, enchanting, enchanting.
"But" not always it is equivalent to "in spite of", amig@ anarkasis. At this point quite the one that usually reads to me will have realized that I love the adversative conjunctions.