La Fray Diego de Ocaña’s journal of his trip through the viceroyalty of Peru (1599-1606): its chronicle and the paratexts

Abstract

The monastery of Guadalupe in Extremadura sent in a regularly way monks to the New World to collect alms from the devotees of the Virgin. In this research we study the travel of fray Diego de Ocaña to the Viceroyalty of Peru and New Spain (1599-1608). His experience of that travel was reflected in his chronicle, which has survived to present day. He was a missionary, a writer, an anthropologist, a propagator of the cult to Our Lady of Guadalupe, the artist who created the triangular shape of the figure of the Virgin on a canvas, as well as the author of the “Comedy of Our Lady of Guadalupe and her miracles”.