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Juana Inés de Asbaje y Ramírez de Santillana, better known as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz[a] OSH (12 November 1651 – 17 April 1695), [1] was a New Spain writer, philosopher, composer and poet of the Baroque period, as well as a Hieronymite nun, nicknamed " The Tenth Muse " and " The Phoenix of America " by her contemporary critics. [1]
3 May 1534 (age 53) Cubas de la Sagra, Madrid, Spain. Juana de la Cruz Vázquez y Gutiérrez, TOR, (3 May 1481 – 3 May 1534), was a Spanish abbess of the Franciscan Third Order Regular. [ 1 ] Known to be a mystic, she was authorized to preach publicly, an extraordinary permission for a woman. Living at the start of Spanish mysticism 's golden ...
The Mothers of the Plaza 25 de Mayo (Spanish: Madres de la Plaza 25 de Mayo), also known simply as Las Madres de Rosario or Madres Rosario, is an Argentine human rights group based in Rosario, Santa Fe Province, Argentina. The organization was created by a group of women who sought answers to the forced disappearance of their children during ...
The Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Recognition (Spanish: Reconocimiento Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz) is an award given since 2003 by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). It is presented to women of the institution for achievements in "teaching, research, or the dissemination of culture." Consisting of a medal and a diploma with the ...
Eufrosina Cruz Mendoza (born 1 January 1979 [1] in Santa María Quiegolani, Oaxaca) is a Zapotec activist for gender equality and the rights of indigenous women and communities. In November 2010 she became the first indigenous woman in Oaxacan politics, assuming the position of deputy of the National Action Party and president of the board of ...
July 3, 2011 [ 1 ] Sergio Gutiérrez Benítez (born May 9, 1945) [ 1 ] is a Mexican Catholic priest who founded and supported an orphanage for 23 years as a lucha libre wrestler. While performing, he wore a red and yellow mask and used the ring name Fray Tormenta ("Friar Storm"). He made only sporadic in-ring appearances in the 2000s before ...
64 minutes. Country. Argentina. Language. Spanish. The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo ( Spanish: Las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo) is a 1985 Argentine documentary film directed by Susana Blaustein Muñoz and Lourdes Portillo about the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Cruz died in Madrid, as a result of an old heart wound, on 18 May 1981, and she was buried at the Cementerio de la Almudena beneath a lovely mausoleum, which is sculptor Luis Sanguino's work. Her epitaph reads: A pesar del daño que me hicieron en mi patria los responsables de la mediocridad del toreo en los años 1940–50, ¡brindo por España!