San Jerónimo en las letras filipinas

Abstract

Saint Jerome is an essential figure in the constitution of Western culture, not only for being Father of the Church, founder of the Christian Latin Literature, and model of holy man, but also for his repercussions for the European iconography and art. This paper studies how the Philippine Islands were involved into the Western tradition exploring a particular case, the presence of Saint Jerome in Philippine Literature. We will focus in two particular aspects: firstly, Jerome’s doctrine in the Baroque Literature written in the Archipelago, and, secondly, his image transmitted to Tagalog and vernacular literature and romances.