Santa Rosa de Lima’s visions and ecstasies

Record summary

The life of Rose of Lima includes reported visions, raptures, bodily mortification and spiritual encounters described by confessors, relatives and later hagiographers. Her canonization processes provide a documentary route for studying how witnesses and ecclesiastical examiners classified extraordinary religious experience in colonial Peru. The material is relevant to altered-state comparison but is mediated by devotional expectations and saint-making procedures. Individual episodes vary in evidentiary quality, and the sources generally aim at holiness rather than neutral psychological description.