Latin texts in the cistercian profession charts at Málaga (1605-1805): biblical exegesis in the service of the feminine religious ceremonial

Abstract

The analysis is projected on the series of profession charts belonging to the cistercian abbey of Santa Ana at Málaga (Spain), those ones mainly related to the chronological period config-ured by the XVII and XVII th centuries; from the point of the possibilities offered by the document surrounding the female profession, one of the most dear moments of catholic liturgy. Latin legends complementing the ornamental part of some of these documents contain references to biblical text or breviary contents, revitalizing the pure feeling of love to God, where the own legend is responsible for connecting with the ceremonial aspect surrounding the meeting of wife and Christ. Finding, cate-gorizing and commenting on classical and ecclesiastical sources from which emanate these texts, impregnated by the clearest mystic sense, will be the task to address in the present study, referring to another type of documentary sources that can report on latin texts stabilization and use at the religious ceremony, giving way to the faith life of a female in the Modern Age.