Ursula de Jesus: “Visions of the World to Come

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Ursula de Jesus:“Visions of the World to Come”
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https://doi.org/10.3735/9781961844025.book-part-021

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Ursula de Jesus was a Roman Catholic mystic of African descent. Born into slavery in Lima, Peru, in 1604, she was taken to the Convent of Santa Clara in Lima in 1617, where she became the servant of Ines del Pulgar, a sixteen-year-old novice and the niece of the woman who owned Ursula’s parents. She was enslaved for more than forty years, until one of the nuns in the convent purchased her freedom. She was denied the possibility of becoming a nun because of her race but remained at the convent for the remainder of her life, serving as a donada, a religious servant.

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