Publication: La codificación de la imagen de Junípero Serra. Herramientas visuales para una campaña de santidad
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Chiva Beltrán, Juan
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Enredars
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El 28 de agosto de 1784 moría Junípero Serra, y en la costera misión californiana de San Carlos Borromeo sus hermanos franciscanos realizaron unas modestas exequias y lo soterraron en una humilde cripta. Tan solo tres años más tarde, el también franciscano mallorquín Francisco Palou publicaba en Ciudad de México una biografía acompañada de un grabado que funcionaba como un retrato codificado: una serie de atributos lo vinculaban a mensajes ya familiares, iniciando una clara campaña en favor de la canonización de un nuevo apóstol americano.
Junípero Serra died on August 28, 1784, and in the coastal Californian mission of San Carlos Borromeo his Franciscan brothers organized a modest funeral and buried him in a humble crypt. Only three years later, the Majorcan friar Francisco Palou published his biography in Mexico City, accompanied by an engraving that worked as a coded portrait: a series of attributes linked that image to familiar messages, initiating a true campaign in favour of the canonization of a new American apostle.
Junípero Serra died on August 28, 1784, and in the coastal Californian mission of San Carlos Borromeo his Franciscan brothers organized a modest funeral and buried him in a humble crypt. Only three years later, the Majorcan friar Francisco Palou published his biography in Mexico City, accompanied by an engraving that worked as a coded portrait: a series of attributes linked that image to familiar messages, initiating a true campaign in favour of the canonization of a new American apostle.




