The patron saints and devotions of the Benedictine Military Orders (Portugal and Castile, 15-16th Centuries)

• Author(s): Costa, Paula Pinto ; Torres Jiménez, Raquel ; Lencart, Joana
• Date: 2019
• Persistent ID: https://hdl.handle.net/10216/127127
• Origin: Repositório Aberto da Universidade do Porto
• Subject(s): História; History
• Document Type: Journal article
• Language: English

Description

This paper studies hagiographic devotion in the seigniories of the military orders: the Orders of Avis and Christ in Portugal and of Calatrava in Castile. Applying a common methodology and using similar sources for all three cases, this paper analyzes the written testimonies of the orders' devotion to Christ and the Virgin Mary, as well as their veneration of the saints. These records were compiled from the visitations made to churches, hermitages, and confraternities between 1462 and 1539. The research was governed by two objectives: firstly, to construct a hagiographic overview of the selected territories by systematizing the data collected; and, secondly, to reflect on the typical devotional profile of the territories of the military orders as portrayed by the documentary evidence.