Posts tagged Catarina de San Juan
From Slave To Spiritual Icon, One Woman’s Life A Snapshot Of Spain’s Colonization

(ANALYSIS) Jan. 5 marked 336 years since the death of an extraordinary woman you have probably never heard of: Catarina de San Juan. Her life reads like an epic. Born in South Asia during the early 17th century, she was captured by the Portuguese at age eight and sold to Spaniards in the Philippines.

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