The Jewels of the Archive Santa Laura Montoya Upegui (Jericó 1874-Medellín 1949): History of the Recovery of its Documentary Collection

Authors

  • María Eugenia Osorio University of Antioquia
  • Carmen Sofía Camacho Mother Laura Congregation
  • Luis Carlos Toro Tamayo University of Antioquia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.rib.v43n1eRf1

Keywords:

Archive, madre Laura, Medellín, theology, documents

Abstract

The aim of this article is to investigate the process of recovery, restoration and classification of the documentary collection of Laura Montoya Upegui, better known as Madre Laura. She founded the Comunidad Misionera de María Inmaculada y Santa Catalina de Sena and she was canonized in 2013. The archive houses approximately 28,000 pages written by the author, among which there are all her original works. The history of the recovery of the Archive begins in 1949, when the writer dies, and since then it has been enriching and modernizing. The organization of documents are divided into the areas that involve the intellectual profile of this saint: theology, mysticism, anthropology, missiology, literature, among others. On the other hand, the archive conserves the books of her personal library, a photographic archive and the collection of books and magazines that the missionary edited and published in her own printing press, called Santa Teresita.

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Author Biographies

María Eugenia Osorio, University of Antioquia

Ph. D. in Spanish-American Literature from the University of Stockholm, Sweden. Member of the Grupo Estudios Literarios (GEL), full professor at the Department of Linguistics and Literature, Faculty of Communications, Universidad de Antioquia (UdeA), Calle 70 N.o 52-21, Medellín-Colombia.

 

Carmen Sofía Camacho, Mother Laura Congregation

Sister missionary of the Mother Laura Congregation and, currently, director of the Mother Laura Archive. She has served as administrator and member of the editorial team of the magazine Almas, the congregation's dissemination organ. She has also been a missionary in the Belgian Congo and in the Colombian Amazon.

Luis Carlos Toro Tamayo, University of Antioquia

D. in Langues et Littératures Romanes and PhD in Latin American Studies from l'Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense and the University of Chile, MA in Linguistics and historian from the University of Antioquia. Professor at the Interamerican School of Librarianship, University of Antioquia, Medellin-Colombia.

 

References

Aguelo, Pedro (2018). Una fotografía no es una fotografía. Sobre artefactos, imágenes semiotizadas y fotografías de archivo. En Discursos y prácticas en la vida y en la obra de santa Laura Montoya (pp. 177-198). Berlín: Peter Lang.

Mesa, Carlos E. (1999) Laura Montoya. Una antorcha de Dios en las selvas de América. Medellín: Carvajal.

Restrepo, Dahyana (2018) Almas. Madre Laura Montoya Upegui: fundadora, directora y editora. En Discursos y prácticas en al vida y en la obra de santa Laura Montoya (pp. 109‑128). Berlín: Peter Lang.

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Published

2019-12-27

How to Cite

Osorio, M. E., Camacho, C. S., & Toro Tamayo, L. C. (2019). The Jewels of the Archive Santa Laura Montoya Upegui (Jericó 1874-Medellín 1949): History of the Recovery of its Documentary Collection. Revista Interamericana De Bibliotecología, 43(1), eRf1/1 - Rf1/8. https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.rib.v43n1eRf1

Issue

Vol. 43 No. 1 (2020)

Section

Reflexiones

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Copyright (c) 2019 Revista Interamericana de Bibliotecología
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