The Concealed Saint: The Writings Of Inés De Moncada (1388–1428)

This is the first academic article that introduces and studies Inés de Moncada (d. 1428), a popular saint from the Valencian region of Serra. It examines the written sources for her life, which began to proliferate in the 1500s and 1600s, in works dedicated to other saints and in larger hagiographic compendia. In particular, it provides a discussion of the sixteenth-and seventeenth-century texts that incorporated details about her life. While examining these written sources, this article considers the possible intertextual interrelationships between them and between these works and the other written and oral sources that they communicated with. It proposes that these earlier accounts responded, in part, to a popular cult that had developed around Inés de Moncada after her miraculous death in the Serra mountains.