Resumen de Writing the next saint: Salas Barbadillo, Juana de la Cruz and the politics of saint-making in early modern Spain

Arantza Mayo

• Antonio Jerónimo Salas Barbadillo published his Triunfos de la beata soror Juana de la Cruz in 1621. This article discusses the politics of saint-making in the Madrid of the first quarter of the seventeenth century with a focus on Salas Barbadillo’s contribution to the orchestrated attempts to elevate Juana de la Cruz (1481–1534), a Franciscan conventual, to the holy ranks. It considers why Salas became an active contributor to soror Juana’s canonization bid and how his literary treatment of her life was shaped by questions of censorship, patronage and the debate on Mary’s immaculacy.