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Arts & Humanities, Art, Martyr, relic, Mexico, Rome, Vicar General, Puebla

Abstract:

This article explores the case of Saint Justin Martyr, whose relics were recently discovered in the convent church of St. Jerome in Puebla de los Ángeles, Mexico. This recovery represents an invaluable testimony of the presence of catacomb relics or corpisanti in Puebla during the eighteenth century. Analysis of the authentica and documentary source materials from the Historical Archive of the Vicariate of Rome allows to reconstruct the context of the concession under the conditions of the connections between Rome and New Spain during the eighteenth century through the donations of Giovanni Antonio Guadagni (1674–1759), Cardinal-Vicar of Rome under the government of Pope Clement XII (1730–1740) and Pope Benedict XIV (1740–1758).