La Salvación en La Sombra
An auto sacramental by Father Silas Menard concerning the namesake of the Colegio, St Potenciana. First performed in Lima in 1632, it served to draw many souls to the Colegio, in search of greater knowledge, or to initiate themselves into the Company’s deeper mysteries.
I’m Reading…
As a young weaver, Potenciana learns of the Tapestries of the Upper Heavens and resolves to create one herself to hang beside them. The powers above, appalled at such mortal arrogance, conspire to punish her, led by Thirst and Agony. She resigns herself to suffer until the whispers of a sable bird catch her ear…
I’ve Read…
‘The Meditations of the Anchorites,’ the bird claims, ‘can reveal the passage into salvation, but only in a mind blank of thoughts.’ Following its advice, she cloisters herself in the earth, in darkness, until the four-winged Past appears before her to reveal the Door hidden in her shadow. **Effect: **Secret Threshold **Mastery: **Lesson: Anchorite Meditations
Aspects
- Mystery: Knock 16
- Written in Latin
- Subject: Anchorite Meditations
- Codex
- Readable
- Thing
- Colegio de Santa Potenciana