This essay deals with the hagiographic afterlife of Catarina de San Juan, the seventeenth-century slave from Asia who became a renowned mystic in colonial Mexico, in writings by German Jesuits, notably Joseph St cklein s popular Welt-Bott. Why and how was Catarina de San Juan s story told for a German-speaking audience in Central Europe The specific German appropriations of her vita suggest that missionary writings could serve as a transmission belt for colonial fantasies , linking the early modern period when the Holy Roman Empire did not have colonies to the modern period when the German Nation acquired colonial holdings in the Pacific.
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