Averiguación de la invención de los huesos de Susana

Abstract

We comment on a document from the Santos Series of the General Archive of the Archdiocese of Seville in which the person who was in a burial covered by marble slab and who was discovered on the outskirts of Salteras by a neighbor on his farm is investigated, trying to find out if she is a saint or not, since her name is epigraphized on the tombstone as Susana Famula Dei, Susana, servant of God. There are no conclusive data on his holiness but there is on his apostasy to his old religion and his embrace of Christianity. Facts, events and even some apparitions are investigated but none of it is conclusive, the Archbishopric does not favorably determine his holiness, it could be a Christianized Jewess who to purge her sins orders that they put her head to her feet. It is noted about the similarity with the beautiful Susana, a Sevillian Jew, daughter of Diego Susón, who embraces Christianity after repentance of the betrayal of her father.