Margaret Chowning
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195182217
- eISBN:
- 9780199850532
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195182217.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
After Phelipa de San Antonio and her allies' power within the convent had been minimized, abbesses and bishops attempted to find ways for the nuns in the La Purísima convent to be content or at least ...
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After Phelipa de San Antonio and her allies' power within the convent had been minimized, abbesses and bishops attempted to find ways for the nuns in the La Purísima convent to be content or at least be at peace while complying with their constitution. Such measures involved lessening the strictness in enforcing the Rule, employing flexibility, allowing the nuns to participate in their own government, relaxing the construal of the vow of poverty, and even providing nuns with special privileges. These measures, however, were faced by certain challenges as broad changes introduced by viceroyalty affected ecclesiastical policy on convents. This chapter looks into how the vida común reforms, particular policies that governed the convent and the bishopric, and other such factors, aided in deterring instances of open rebellion during what was left of the colonial period.Less
After Phelipa de San Antonio and her allies' power within the convent had been minimized, abbesses and bishops attempted to find ways for the nuns in the La Purísima convent to be content or at least be at peace while complying with their constitution. Such measures involved lessening the strictness in enforcing the Rule, employing flexibility, allowing the nuns to participate in their own government, relaxing the construal of the vow of poverty, and even providing nuns with special privileges. These measures, however, were faced by certain challenges as broad changes introduced by viceroyalty affected ecclesiastical policy on convents. This chapter looks into how the vida común reforms, particular policies that governed the convent and the bishopric, and other such factors, aided in deterring instances of open rebellion during what was left of the colonial period.
