From the Valencian anonymous life of St. Onophrius at the beginning of the sixteenth century to the recreation of Onofre Salt (Barcelona, 1620)

Abstract

The devotion to the anchorite Saint Onophrius in Catalan-speaking lands is quite widespread and has numerous witnesses. Among the literary ones, two stand out. One in Catalan, which is anonymous and was published in Valencia at the beginning of the sixteenth century with clear evidence of being a work that includes texts elaborated in previous stages, and another published in 1620 in Barcelona in Spanish despite being a work of the Valencian Onofre Salt. This article examines the differences between both and the points in common of the two hagiographic devotional texts that are at the end of the crossing of the modern age: the first from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, and the second that is already in the Baroque period.