Materiality and the Sacred: Ligna Crucis Relics in Santiago de Chile, 17th and 18th centuries
This paper sketches an interpretive approach to the scarce presence of relics in Santiago de Chile during the Colonial period.Taking stock of conventual sources and of some testamentary dispositions, Fireplace Tools the article delineates the discreet life that those sacred remains (and their associated visual objects) led within the religious life