Published in The World of Tradition

Keywords: Keywords: Christians, Community, Guadalupe, Sensation, Tradition.

The paper analyses the miracles CXXXI, CXLVII, CLXIIIIII and CLXXXIIII of Los Milagros de Guadalupe, referring to the liberation of Christians from captivity held by the Moors during the 15th and 16th centuries. The sensory, corporal, and affective marks of the subjects of discourse, and the intertextual traces of literary traditions –that of the bestiaries, the evangelical one and that of miracles– identify the distinctive conditions of the sensory and literary community of Guadalupe that gave rise to the collection of miracles. The examination gives an account of the expressive resources used by the friars in charge of the production and propagation of the miraculous stories to establish Christian orthodoxy around the figure of the Virgin Mary of Guadalupe and the symbol and historical fleshing of the captives.