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Dios prodigioso en el Judio mas obstinado, en el penitenciado mas penitente, i en el mas ciego en errores, despues clarissimo en virtudes, el venerable hermano frai Antonio de S[an] Pedro, : religioso lego de el sacro, real, i militar orden de Mercenarios descalzos, redemprores [sic] de cautivos Christianos. Cuya admirabile vida, i su maravillosa reduccion del Judaismo à nuestra s[an]ta fè,

Echeverria, José Gabriel de. fmo RIBRL · 1688 · [Seville] : Por el P. Fr. Marcos de la Cruz, calificador de la Suprema i General Inquisicion, i provincial actual de la dicha provincia de Andalucia. · 5 pictures

A 1688 Spanish devotional biography printed in Seville by Fr. Marcos de la Cruz, recounting the life of Fray Antonio de San Pedro, a barefoot Mercedarian lay friar and former Jew who converted to Christianity, for a Catholic readership. Its pictures are small woodcut ornaments: a dense bouquet of tulips and peonies, a scrolled cartouche with acanthus leaves and a 'LIBRO' label, and a grotesque panel with putti, masks and tassels, useful for border and header designs with a baroque flavour.

Imprint 1688

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