Iesus, mater nutrix: An unprecedented revelation of the donada Úrsula de Jesús (1604-1666), Creole-Mulatto visionary

Abstract

Úrsula de Jesús was an exceptional donada who professed in the Convent of Santa Clara at the City of the Kings in Peru. She distinguished herself from all her Creole predecessors and contemporaries—both black-veiled and white-veiled nuns— not only in her ethnic profile of a Creole-Mulatto who has become more advanced due to her condition of freedom and her profound spirituality, but also in her intercessory role before God in favor of number of nuns, priests, Indian and Mulatto women who begged her shorten their torments in Purgatory. As if that were not enough, among her most important visions stand out one of a lactating Christ that justifies her as a figure of change vindicating her ethnicity and promoting a new community of nuns in her viceregal Peru.