Las imágenes de culto en la legislación eclesiástica del Virreinato de la Nueva Granada

This essay analyzes the legislation developed in relation to the image of  Catholic worship in the Viceroyalty of Nueva Granada in the mid-18 th  century, a period when ecclesiastical authorities strongly questioned  such issues as holiness, prodigies, the possession of relics, the circulation  of prints, and the relationship between believers and religious objects.  It examines provincial synods, diocesan councils and church  meetings whose policies were based on three main points: i) the use of  relics of saints and martyrs and the censoring of paintings of miracles;  ii) the work of the architects of imagery and the circulation of satirical  prints; and, iii) the ordering of worship as professed by devotees to images.  The aim is to describe the tensions that emerged between ecclesiastical  reform policies and the uses of Catholic images by the society of  Nueva Granada.