The Souls of Purgatory: The Spiritual Diary of a Seventeenth-Century Afro-Peruvian Mystic, Ursula de Jesus

Book Overview

The life of the black religious servant Ursula de Jes s (1604-1666) has remained one of the best-kept historical secrets of the New World. This English language translation of the diary she began in 1650 allows us to hear the voice of the former slave turned spiritualist.

Born into slavery in Lima, Peru, Ursula entered a convent at the age of thirteen to serve a nun, and spent the next twenty-eight years as one of hundreds of slaves whose...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826328288
• ISBN13: 9780826328281
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 221 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"