Materiality and the Sacred: Ligna Crucis Relics in Santiago de Chile, 17th and 18th centuries
This paper sketches an interpretive approach to the scarce presence of relics in Santiago de Chile during the Colonial period.Taking stock of conventual sources and Fridge Water Hose Inline Tap of some testamentary dispositions, the article delineates the discreet life that those sacred remains (and their associated visual objects) led within the r