In the third quarter of the eighteenth century, Santo Domingo archbishop Isidoro Rodríguez Lorenzo (s. 1767–1788) issued a decree officializing the day of the cult for the Virgin of Altagracia as January 21 and made it a feast of three crosses for the villa of Salvaleón de Higüey and its jurisdiction, meaning all races (free and enslaved) were allowed to join the celebrations in church. Unrelated to the issuance of this decree and approximately during this time (c. 1760–1778), a series of painted panels depicting miracles performed by the Virgin of Altagracia was produced for her sanctuary of San Dionisio in Higüey, in all likelihood commissioned by a close succession of parish priests to the maestro painter Diego José Hilaris Holt. Painted in the coarse style of popular votive panels, they gave the cult a unifying core foundation of miracles. This essay discusses the significance of the black bodies pictured in four of the panels within the project’s implicit effort to institutionalize the regional cult and vis-à-vis the archbishop’s encouragement of non-segregated celebrations for her feast day. As January 21 was associated with a renowned Spanish creole battle against the French, this essay locates these black bodies within the cult’s newfound patriotic charisma. I examine the process by which people of color were incorporated into this community of faith as part of a two-step ritual that involved seeing images while performing difference. Through contrapuntal analysis of the archbishop’s decree, I argue the images helped model black piety and community membership within a hierarchical socioracial order.

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阿尔塔格蕾西亚圣母奖章中的黑人虔诚和社区成员身份建模

在十八世纪第三季度，圣多明各大主教伊西多罗·罗德里格斯·洛伦佐（Isidoro Rodríguez Lorenzo，1767-1788 年）颁布了一项法令，将阿尔塔格蕾西亚圣母的崇拜日正式定为 1 月 21 日，并将其定为别墅的三个十字架盛宴Salvaleón de Higüey 及其管辖区，这意味着所有种族（自由和被奴役的）都被允许参加教堂的庆祝活动。与该法令的发布无关，大约在此期间（约 1760-1778 年），为她在 Higüey 的 San Dionisio 圣殿制作了一系列描绘阿​​尔塔格拉西亚圣母所创造奇迹的彩绘画板，很可能是受一位教区牧师与大师的密切继承画家迭戈·何塞·希拉里斯·霍尔特。他们以流行的奉献面板的粗糙风格绘制，为邪教提供了一个统一的奇迹核心基础。这篇文章讨论了在项目将区域邪教制度化的隐性努力中，四个面板中描绘的黑人身体的重要性，以及大主教鼓励在她的节日期间进行非隔离庆祝活动。由于 1 月 21 日与著名的西班牙克里奥尔人与法国人的战斗有关，因此本文将这些黑人尸体置于该邪教新发现的爱国魅力中。我研究了有色人种融入这个信仰社区的过程，这是一个两步仪式的一部分，该仪式涉及在表现差异的同时看到图像。通过对大主教法令的对位分析，