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PSCR8631

1742. Carta de José de Casas para fray Miguel Prieto, superior de San Bernardo.

Author(s) José de Casas      
Addressee(s) Miguel Prieto      
In English

Letter from José de Casas to Fray Miguel Prieto, a superior from the Order of San Bernardo.

The author, as an answer to a previous letter, informs Fray Miguel Prieto of the content of certain propositions made by Cristóbal de Albenadea on December the 8th.

Following an accusation of scandalous propositions, a trial against Fray Francisco Antonio de Villar del Saz, also known as Fray Francisco Antonio Ladrón de Guevara, occurred between 1739 and 1744. Eventually the defendant was condemned. He was given away by the parish priest Manuel Antonio Sánchez Niño, who was Josefa Moreno y Suárez´s confessor. Josefa told the aforementioned priest that the defendant arrived in Toledo around 1737, he contacted her and told her he was his brother. She believed him and he took advantage of her, touching her, kissing her and asking her to sleep together. These events occurred approximately between 1738 and Epiphany night of 1739. The defendant justified himself by saying that it was a "test or experience" therefore, it was not a sin. He argued that this kind of relationships were not unlawful in the classics he was reading. Josefa asked him to give it to her in writing and so he did, sending a boy with a paper containing quotes and opinions. As soon as she received it, Josefa took it to her confessor (PSCR5740). A part of the "papers" that Fray Francisco Antonio de Villar del Saz and Josefa Moreno exchanged (PSCR5739 a PSCR5750) were provided to the trial documentation by Manuel Antonio Sánchez Niño. The rest (PSCR8626 a PSCR8629) were provided by Josefa Moreno y Suárez during her second statement (July the 4th 1739) following her confessor´s advice.

In 1743, a new proceeding for scandalous propositions against the same defendant was added to the existing one. These propositions were made during a sermon on December the 14th 1742, in Fuentelencina (Guadalajara). Ten letters were added to this proceeding: five of them were written by Miguel Prieto, a superior of the Order of San Bernardo in the monastery of Monsalud (Córcoles, Guadalajara) and addressed to several neighbours from Fuentelencina (Guadalajara); the other five letters are the answers from each one of them, so they admitted when they were called to testify. All the letters sent by Manuel Prieto were answered in the same folio he sent. The letters were integrated to the proceeding documentation because there were doubts regarding a proposition made by the defendant during a mass in honour of the Purísima Concepción (on December the 8th 1742) in Fuentelencina (Guadalajara). On the following 14th of the same month, Cristóbal de Albendea preached in Auñón (Guadalajara) another serious proposition; not longer after that, on the 23rd, the defendant, who belonged to the same convent of Cristóbal de Albendea, repeated the same proposition. Given that the five letters from Miguel Prieto are the same and the answers to it very similar, only the first one from Miguel Prieto (PSCR8630) and two of the answers (PSCR8631 and PSCR8632) have been included.

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R Pe Pr y sr mio.

Hecho cargo de la precedente, que recibi con toda estimn y obedeciendo su precepto, respondo que es assi que en la oracion panegyrica, que de la concepn de Ma Sma dixo el R Pe Fr Christobal de Alvandea, relixioso del Sephico Franco de la familia Descalza y Guan del Convto de Auñon se notô el arrogante desliz, que V P R expresa, y en los mismos términos por la mar y mas juiciosa parte del Auditorio, dicho, que procure excusar, y diminuir en la disonancia; attendiendo al character del Orador, y persuadido de que habria sido indeliberado; Pero no habiendo dho Pe dado satisfaccion alguna, ni publica, ni privada; zeloso de la gloria y veneran debida â tan gran Pe y Doctor el R Pe F Joseph de Roxas del orden de la Sma trind vindicô el perdido respeto del Sto Doctor: diciendo en la oracion 8 que si no habia sido equivocada la proposicion, era arrojo. de que resultô que el Pe Villar del Saz, religioso de el mismo convto resentido acaso de esta censura en el sermon que predico el dia 23 de este mes de Animas en mi Iglesia establecio y deduxo esta illacion: Luego me-jor lo digo yo que Sn Berndo.. Habiendo citado primero esta authoridad (no , si verdadera, ô suppuesta) del Sto Doctor: specialis devotio est pro animabus Purgatoris benefacere, y silogizando assi: Sn Berndo no dixo mas: yo digo que: Devotio devotionum est pro animabus Purgatoris benefacere: luego mejor lo digo yo que Sn Berndo la qual assercion procuro probar con argumentos disparados, ineficaces y disonantes y excusarla de temeraria: diciendo que los sanctos erraron en muchas cosas (doctrina escandalosa para los ignorantes, que no saben distinguir de error material, y formal) y que el podia ser ser mas docto y sancto que Sn Berndo y caso que no lo fuesse, que no impedia la menor sanctidad en un sujeto a la mar sabiduria respecto de otro mas sancto: porque (dixo haciendo esta odiosa, y sediciosa comparacion) ahunque Sto Thomas estaba en el cielo y Scoto no, o, si estaba, no constaba, no obstante el diria, siendo scotista, que era mejor la doctrina de scoto que la de Sto Thomas: sin penetrar lo sutil de querer deducir la existencia de la posibilidad: y sin hacerse cargo de que en la cathedra del spiritu sancto se han de excluir proposiciones que ahun en las aulas no se profieren, ni defienden signate quales: si la doctrina de scoto es mejor que la de Sto Thomas, siendo assi que este es lugar mas licencioso, que aquel, en el que solo se han de enseñar verdades morales, y citar las authoridades de los SS PP y sus sentencias para el provecho espiritual de las Almas. Yo confiesso a V P R que quede sorprendido al puncto que oy tan sobervia, indecorosa y temeraria (que estos epithetos merece) proposicion soberbia: porque, como V P R sabe la presumpcion es hija de este enorme, y radical vicio: indecorosa; porque aggravia la veneran y elevado caracter de Sn Berndo temeraria: porque procede de menosprecio de la re-gla dirigente, qual es en materias doctrinales la authoridad de los SS PP prefiriendo la suya el orador. esto es lo que a V P R puedo decir sobre la ratifican de tan arrogante proposicion, como testigo de vista, ó por mejor decir, de oydo, assegurando a V P R que, â no temer algun escandalo en el templo, hubiera interrumpido tanto attrevimto y desverguenza, que tacitamte fuera de lo enunciado, vulnera la authoridad de el , que, por decirlo mejor en muchos punctos, usô de las authoridades de el melifluo Doctor y por quanto contemplo que la ignorancia crasa de este religioso le precipitô, espero de V P R que de tal suerte usara de los arbitrios, que puede ocasionar este informe que no cueste mas sangre â este Religioso, que la que sea necessario se asome al rostro para su erubescencia. Quedo de V P R con el deseo de que me mande y de que Dios gde ms as Fuentelencina y Diciembre 30 de 1742

B L Mo de V P R su mas affo servr Amigo y Capn D Joseph de Casas

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