El entorno familiar de Cathalina del Spiritu Sancto

Abstract

Cathalina del Spiritu Sancto, the author of the Relación de cómo se ha fundado en Alcántara de Portugal iunto a Lisboa el muy devoto monasterio de N.S. de la Quietación (1627), dedicates part of her text to the description of her personal life, fomenting in this way interest in aument-ing our knowledge about the life of this religious author, dividing her life between the Low Countries and the Iberian Peninsula. There are no other known texts by this author. In this contribution, both the documentation on her father and herself in the Low Countries, as well as that regarding her ancestry and her Spanish relatives, are studied.