Magdalena de Cruce (Magdalena de la Cruz, fl. mid 16th cent.)

Magdalena de Cruce (Magdalena de la Cruz, fl. mid 16th cent.) OSC. Spanish Poor Clare from Aguilar (Córdoba). Nun of the Santa Clara monastery in Córdoba. Known for her sanctity and revelations, she drew admirers from high places, and was considered for a while as a living saint. Yet she eventually came under suspicion, especially when, in the wake of a serious illness in 1543, Magdalena confessed that she had invented her alleged stigmata and claims of performing miracles. She was persecuted by the Inquisition, and in an auto-da-fé held at Córdoba in 1546, she was condemned to perpetual imprisonment in a Clarissan cloister. There she ended her life with penitential practices.

Works

• Relación de su vida y gracias especiales que habiá recibido Relación de su vida y gracias especiales que habiá recibido . Written at the request of her confessor. The work was later confiscated. See: M. Menendez y Pelayo, Historia de los heterodoxos españoles II, 528-529.

  Written at the request of her confessor. The work was later confiscated. See: M. Menendez y Pelayo, Historia de los heterodoxos españoles II, 528-529.

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Literature