The indigenous brotherhood of Santa Rose. Foundations and propagation in the archdiocese of Lima along the 1670s

Abstract

The fast promotion to the altars of Sta. Rose of Lima and the support that her canonization had for the colonial institutions become to a great devotion. All social clases venerated Sta. Rose, but the indigenous ones highlighted. Thereby the cult among the indigenous spread out, organizing itself by brotherhoods in the Archidiocese of Lima in just ten years. An accelerated and unique process.