Mariana de Oliva, criada india de Santa Rosa de Lima: vida y textos*

This article studies Saint Rose of Lima’s canonization texts prepared in that city between the years 1617-1618 and 1630-1632, as well as her first hagiographies published in the seventeenth century in Europe. The study compares diverse testimonies, narrations, information and their variants to reconstruct the participation of the domestic servant, Mariana de Oliva, a Spanish-speaking Indian or ladina, in Rose’s life and in the production of her sainthood, understood as a textual phenomenon and as the manifestation of a multiethnic urban culture.