[1610-1619]. Carta de Leonor Rodrigues, beata, para a sua irmã de alma, Grácia Pires, fiandeira.

Private letter from Leonor Rodrigues to her sister, Grácia Pires, spinner.

The author gives her sister some news about her health and about their family.

The defendant in this process is Grácia Pires, 25 years old, from the small town of Sertã, accused of pretending to have visions and revelations. She said that she was a saint and that Our Lady appeared to her, carrying the baby Jesus and letting her take him by the hand. She had the special protection of two priests, but even though she ended up confessing that she was lying about the visions. In an auto-de-fé on January 10,1621, the defendant was sentenced to the exhile in Castro Marim, Algarve, never being allowed to go back to her hometown, having to accomplish spiritual penitence and the payment of legal costs.