[1588]. Carta de autor não identificado para destinatário não identificado.

Private letter from an unidentified female author to an unidentified addressee

The author gives detailed information about the marks found on the body of a defendant, a nun that the Inquisition was accusing. The marks belonged to the religious iconography.

This letter was found in the Inquisition file of Ana Rodrigues, a professed nun from the Third Order of Saint Francis. She pretended having revelations and she simulated stigmata in her body, later admitting that she had done them herself. In a processual note, there is a detailed description of the location of the signs and figures in Ana Rodrigues's body, which was obtained using a wax mould. The first mould revealed the name of Jesus; the second one a Christ in the cross and the third one a beautiful cross.