TY - BOOK AU - Jesús,Ursula de AU - Van Deusen Nancy E TI - The souls of purgatory: the spiritual diary of a seventeenth-century Afro-Peruvian mystic, Ursula de Jesús T2 - Diálogos SN - 082632827X AV - BX4705.J47 U1 - 271/.97302B PY - 2004/// CY - Albuquerque, N.M. PB - University of New Mexico Press KW - Jesús Ursula de KW - Women mystics KW - Peru KW - Diaries KW - Women Black KW - Purgatory N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The world of Ursula de Jesús -- Ursula's life story : portraits and portrayals -- A walk through Lima -- Ursula's early childhood -- A niche of female mysticism -- Life in the convent of Santa Clara -- "In the grave I may speak through stones" : purgatory and popular perceptions of the beyond -- "Apostles of the dead": medieval female intercession -- Early modern European and Latin American visionaries -- Ambassadresses to the beyond in seventeenth-century Lima -- The singularities of Ursula de Jesús -- The text -- Translation of Ursula's Diary -- Selections from Ursula's Diary ER -