Los santos en los procesos de formación de identidades locales: el mito de San Fernando y la ciudad de Sevilla

RODRÍGUEZ BECERRA, Salvador

Publication year:

2006

Publication place:

Donostia-San Sebastián

ISBN:

978-84-8419-045-5

ISSN:

1137-439X

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Summary

This article shows the importance of saints in the confirmation of the identities of towns and villages. Seville, conquered in 1248 by the Castilian King Ferdinand III, will him into a myth and a symbol of its identity. In the mentality of the medieval and golden centuries, to have in the patrimony a king that "restored" Christianity in the town, was tantamount to being its creator. In the struggle with other towns for pre-eminence, this was a considerable added value. The myth of Saint Ferdinand is currently quite devaluated.