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pathway Teresian in the rest of Navarre

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Reliquary and autograph letter in Viana

Juan Cruz Labeaga has studied the Teresian mementoes in Viana in detail. Among the most notable reliquaries of the saint in Navarre are some with her signature in various private collections, those of subject ostensorio de las Carmelitas de San José de Pamplona and the one in Viana.

The reliquary of the parish of Santa María Viana dates from 1627 and was sent by Fray Juan de San José, superior of the convent of San Hermegildo in Madrid, including an original letter from the saint addressed to Don Teutonio de Braganza in 1574, suitably certified by the general of the order, Fray Juan del Espíritu Santo. The bequest was originally addressed to the canon of Pamplona Don Miguel de Lebrija, brother of Fray Juan de San José. Both were from La Rioja and sons of the Count of Altamira. The piece was inventoried in the parish of Viana until the 19th century.

The reliquary is in the form of a classical frontispiece and is made of ebony wood with gilded bronze ornamentation. It consists of a base, a main body flanked by a Doric order and a triangular pediment. In the centre there are various relics of saints and a miniature with a portrait of the saint as a writer and a half-length bust. In one hand she holds a pen and in the other a closed book with a model of a building above it, alluding to her status as a foundress. There is also the usual registration from her mouth in a phylactery and a beautiful landscape on the back.

Two images of the saint are preserved in the parish church. The first is located on the bench of the altarpiece of Santa Catalina, contracted, together with another dedicated to Santiago, in 1631 with Juan de Bazcardo and his son-in-law Diego Jiménez II. The second occupies a side niche of an altarpiece on the left side of the ambulatory, which was originally dedicated to San Lorenzo and later to the Virgen del Carmen. The design of the altarpiece is the work of the Carmelite friar José de San Juan de la Cruz, a resident of Logroño at the time, and was made by Juan Jerónimo Coll in 1756.

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Reliquary and autograph letter in Viana

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