1784. Carta de Santa Rosa de Jesús, monja, para un destinatario no identificado.

Letter from Santa Rosa de Jesús, a nun, to an unidentified addressee.

The author writes to an unidentified addressee to defend María Yela and to try to cast light on a misunderstanding which seems to have created enmity between the addressee and María. She gives her news and advice, and she tells her that she should accept María Yela in her house.

María de Yela, resident in Alacalá de Henares, was accused of false apparitions and false miracles. She claimed that one day, while she was going to a hermitage on the Ecce Homo hill near Alcalá de Henares, she had seen a Capuchin friar who had with him a lot of food, and while she was seeing him she could cross the river without getting wet, and she affirmed that that had been a miracle. In the interrogatories are described that and other apparitions which María Yela had allegedly described to María Sánchez e Ana Pobeda, with whom she lived in Alcalá de Henares and who, later, had accused her. This letter was presented to the tribunal by Ana Pobeda, who claimed that it was addressed to María Yela, which is not what is written in the letter, but that she could not tell anymore about it because she could not read. The proceedings are incomplete.