Hagiographic Rooms
  

          The lives of the saints have been used as educational tools since early Christian times. Their veneration has been a characteristic of the Catholic Church throughout its history.

            The Counter-Reform placed an emphasis on the development of such devotional practices among the masses, because it considered the saints to be role models of evangelical life. In New Spain, the indigenous church made an effort to continue this type of spirituality and discovered in the language of baroque painting the perfect vehicle for the propagation of the devotion to the saints.