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1800. Carta de Juan Ximénez Llamas, presbítero de la villa de Belmonte, y Francisco Villalón para Juan Manuel de Alcantud, franciscano descalzo.

Author(s) Juan Ximénez Llamas       Francisco Villalón
Addressee(s) Juan Manuel de Alcantud      
In English

Letter from Francisco Villalón and Juan Ximénez Llamas, a presbyter of Belmonte, to Juan Manuel de Alcantud, a barefoot Franciscan.

The author thanks Juan Manuel de Alcantud for his encouraging words. He lets the addressee know that he will soon receive another letter from him, together with one from «N» (the Blessed Isabel). He also reports that in recent times many people, even from other parts, have approached to María Isabel Herráiz. These people express their fervour in a very conspicuous fashion and confessions and church attendance have increased. There are some words from the second sender, Francisco Villalón, at the end of the letter.

Following an accusation for «alumbrados» against María Isabel Herráiz, the Blessed of Villar del Águila, a trial took place between 1802 and 1808. The trial broadened to include many other people accused of being complicit in her delusions. Maria Isabel Herráiz believed that Jesus Christ was within her and, as a result, she would not take communion. Some of the other accused stated that they could see Jesus as a child appearing on her chest. When she renounced the faith she admitted her mistakes. All the signs, visions and revelations she had received as true and given by God, were the work of an evil spirit. She also blamed this evil spirit for tricking her into believing that the Lord had materialized in her body in order to accomplish an overall reformation and to establish a new apostleship. She declared she had to die in Rome and ascend into heaven three days afterwards, and these facts were announced in the Apocalypse and other sacred books. Maria Isabel Herráiz also argued that the Devil was to blame for all these thoughts, since her imagination had been transformed and warmed by him. She admitted that her accomplices were looked for and incited by her. In her statement, she argued that she did not make a pact with the Devil, but she was possessed by him. Furthermore, she admitted to allowing worship of herself, although she insisted it was all a diabolical artifice. According to her, she was blameless regarding the uproar in the village. Apparently there were disturbances among her followers, the «endiablados». On the upper margin of folio 26r there is an annotation that reads: "From Llamas to Alcantud" and "June the 6th 800". On folio 27r it also reads: "from Francisco Villalón to Alcantud".

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Page 26r > 26v

Ave Maria Purissima

Mi Mas querido, y estimado P Lector: Recibi ayer la de Vm con sumo gusto, y Complacencia, y me ha llenado de singular gozo: Quedo enterado de quanto Vm dize en ella, y me sirve muchisimo para avivar cada dia mas la fe de esta obra del Sr, conozco lo mismo qe Vm me dize, que quiere el Sr qe trabajemos en ella, y nos esforzemos a pesar de quanto el enemigo procura machinar para apartarnos de ella: Yo he tenido bastante qe trabajar, y no han faltado apurillos, pero el Sr ha acudido a la mayor Necesidad, qe Jamas desampara a quien se pone sin reserva en sus manos. El Domingo recibiria Vm una mia con otra de N. en la qe dezia a Vm el estado, en qe se hallaba ea Como tambien el parecer del P Rubielos. Lo que ocurre aora de mas particular es la nocion general, y deseos de muchissas almas del pueblo, que han venido estos dias desde el primer dia de Pasqua a ver a N., y a que les diga cosas buenas, assi se explican, con unos mobimientos, y deseos tan buenos, qe bien claro dan a entender ser todo efec-to del Sr, qe atrae a si a estas pobres almas, qe han estado tanto tiempo sin conozer el tesoro, qe tienen dentro de su mismo pueblo, lloran las pobres, gimen suspiran, se postran, y hazen otras muchas cosas, sin qe nadie sea capaz de contenerlas, y esto no solamte en casa quando vienen a verla, sino tambien en la calle, esperandola o bien al salir de la Yglesia, o en las casas por donde ha de passar, esta mañana mismo adverti al salir de la Yglesia muchas gentes, qe se quedaban, y para que? esperando qe saliesse, y en el atrio alli fue ella! Ahora quisiera a Vm aqui: Vamos a los efectos: Confesiones generales ,qe no se como tengo de acudir a todas, mas frequencia de sacramentos tanto qe me veo aburrido los dias de fiesta, y estos dias mucha mas gente a las Missas, y al Rosario: todas que quieren ser buenas, qe no pueden parar si no vienen a verla ea. Otras le piden perdon, si hasta aqui havian ha



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