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Relación de las fiestas que en la ciudad de Lima se hicieron por la beatificación del bienaventurado Padre Ignacio de Loyola
The Relación was published in Lima in 1610, in the presses of Francisco del Canto, in honour of the beatification of Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus, by Pope Paul V on 27 July 1609. Thus, this event became known in the city of the Kings on 16 April 1610 through a sheet of paper that arrived from the peninsula containing the Bull of Beatification.
This publication documents the celebrations held for the beatification on 30 and 31 July by order of Bartolomé Lobo Guerrero, Archbishop of Lima, and Juan de Mendoza y Luna, Marquis of Montesclaros, Viceroy of that city. It describes the jubilant atmosphere experienced by the ecclesiastical chapter, the Society of Jesus, present in Peru since 1568, and the city of the Kings, as well as the acts of faith and detachment of “illustrious neighbours” of Lima such as Ana Messia, Marquise of Montesclaros and Viceroy of Peru, who sent the best of her oratory: garnished agni (lambs), odour knobs and canopies for the altars of the Jesuit church.
Other actions in favour of the preparations, mass celebrations and procession of the saint were those of Doña Bárbara Ramírez, founder of the Colegio de Lima and barefoot nun, who had a statue of the saint sculpted, carrying in one hand a Jesus enamelled in silver; and Don Domingo Garro, commander and major accountant of his majesty, who had an image of the saint made. The days of celebration closed with a Coloquio – or theatre – on the History of the Patriarch Joseph, as they considered that the lives of both – Joseph and Ignatius of Loyola – were similar due to the work they had done in prisons, having suffered persecutions and therefore enjoying the triumph and sacrament of the altars.