Mas ia tiempo es que enbíe el Señor su Ángel con azotes la influencia de las criaturas celestes en María de Ajofrín (¿?-1489

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to study the angels that appear in the hagiographies about María de Ajofrín (¿?-1489), who was a Hieronymite religious from the convent of San Pablo in Toledo. A review of the writings about this visionary (la Vida de la bienabenturada virgen María de Ajofrín and successive texts, one of which are included in the Flos sanctorum) allows us, on the one hand, to expand our knowledge of the spiritual authority of this woman by explaining the exercises of cruelty carried out by her angels; and, on the other hand, to point out the differences that these celestial beings present with respect to those who marked the life trajectories of other women whose importance for the Spanish literary canon is currently being recovered.