Welcome, my unholy loves, to the final episode of our Unholy December series.

In seventeenth-century Puebla, a cloistered nun's suffering was documented as spiritual warfare rather than illness. Drawing on colonial convent records and clerical testimony, we examine how pain, devotion, and fear collided inside the rigid world of New Spain's Carmelite convents. Stripped of folklore, this case reveals how a woman's body became a site of religious authority and control. The Possessed Nun of Puebla endures not because of what was believed to inhabit her, but because of how her suffering was interpreted.

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Sources & References:

Rosalva Loreto López, “The Devil, Women, and the Body in Seventeenth-Century Puebla Convents,” The Americas, Cambridge University Press.

False Mystics: Deviant Orthodoxy in Colonial Mexico, Scribd academic document.

Discalced Carmelite Convent of San José and Santa Teresa — historical foundation and context.

Fernando Cervantes, The Devil in the New World: The Impact of Diabolism in Colonial Mexico, Yale University Press, 1994.

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