Perfilando la idea de mártir y martirio en la Antigüedad a través de la Passio Seruandi et Germani

  1. Natalia Gómez Torres
Book:
Nuevas letras con antigua caligrafía. Mártires romanos en altares barrocos
  1. Fernando Quiles (ed. lit.)
  2. José Jaime García Bernal (ed. lit.)

Publisher: Enredars Publicaciones

ISBN: 978-84-09-51893-7

Year of publication: 2023

Volume Title: Universo Barroco Iberoamericano

Volume: 30

Pages: 99-118

Type: Book chapter

Abstract

With this study, we expect to understand some conceps as “martyr” or “martyrdom” from the use of the hagiographic texts, especially the Saint Servando and Saint German’s hagiographic legend, who lived, supposedly, between the third and fourth centuries. Also, with this investigation we will try to know if they truly lived when the legend says to us, if they were judged by Viator. Nevertheless the hagiographic legend has led to the emergence a kind of linkage between the Cadiz’s population and their Holy Patrons