Vida de Fray Servando

A life of Servando Teresa de Mier (1763–1827), the Dominican friar from New Spain who spent nearly half his life going in and out of prison while trying to free himself from his habit and his country from Spanish rule. It opens with the bold sermon of 12 December 1794, in which the young preacher told the congregation at Tepeyac that the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe had been painted on the cloak of the apostle Saint Thomas. Years of Spanish jails, travels in France and Italy and escapes follow; then the Cortes of Cádiz, London, where he writes his history of the revolution in New Spain, Xavier Mina's expedition to free Mexico, the cells of the Inquisition and the fort of San Juan de Ulúa, and at last his part in the politics of imperial and republican Mexico until his death.

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About the book

Form

Nonfiction

Length

802 pages in the original

Genres

Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Mexico

First published

2004 by Ediciones Era

Author's age

42 when first published

ISBN

9789684115583 (original)