Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

By JarenyB
  • Birth

    Birth
    Juana Inés de Asbaje Ramírez de Santillana was born in San Miguel Nepantla, New Spain on November 12, 1648
  • first writing

    first writing
    She wrote her first Eucharistic Loa to the Blessed Sacrament between 1656-1657.
  • adolescence

    adolescence
    He received his first 20 lessons of Latin grammar with the bachelor Martín Olivas on August 14, 1667, entered the convent of San José de Carmelitas Descalzas and on November 18 of the same year he left it
  • Studies

    Studies
    He wanted to enter the University but since women did not have the right to study, he disguised himself as a man in order to enter. At the end of 1666 he caught the attention of Father Núñez de Miranda, confessor of the viceroys, who, upon learning that the young woman did not wish to marry, proposed that she enter a religious order.
  • Religious life

    Religious life
    Enters the convent of San Jerónimo, of the daughters of Santa Paula as a novice
  • disease

    disease
    A first typhus disease puts her in real danger around the year 1671
  • The efforts of a house

    The efforts of a house
    Not only did he write poetry, he presented in the Mexican city, the winning comedy of a contest in which he participated and was the winner: Los empeños de una casa.
  • criticizes his religious life

    criticizes his religious life
    Sor Juana writes the well-known Carta Atenagórica, a letter that cost her a strong scolding and harsh assertions about her religious life and her leisure time in writing by the Bishop of Puebla
  • faith

    faith
    he signed his Profession of Faith ”and ratified his religious vows with his blood; he reiterated his defense of the Immaculate Conception.
  • Died

    Died
    On April 17, he died as a result of the typical epidemic disease of the time, typhus.
  • success in europe

    success in europe
    All of Sor Juana's poems were published in Madrid that had already consecrated her more than as a nun as a poet of life, love, and the regrets of heartbreak.