Bertilda Samper Acosta

Colombian Poor Clare nun, poet and writer

José María Samper Agudelo (father)
Soledad Acosta Kemble (mother)
Tomás Joaquín de Acosta y Pérez de Guzmán (grandfather)
Miguel Samper Agudelo (uncle)
Agripina Samper Agudelo (aunt)

Literature portal

Sister María Ignacia, OSC, born Bertilda Samper Acosta (31 July 1856 – 31 July 1910)^[1] was a Colombian Poor Clare nun, poet and writer. She was the daughter of José María Samper Agudelo and Soledad Acosta Kemble, both renowned writers and journalists of their time in Colombia.

Although most of her poetry has remained unpublished, she is known for her revision and expansion of the novena of aguinaldos,^[2]^[3] a popular devotional novena of Advent during the Christmas season in Colombia, also popular in Ecuador and Venezuela.

References

^ Acosta, Soledad (August 2004). "Cronología" [Chronology]. In Ordóñez Vila, Montserrat (ed.). Novelas y cuadros de la vida suramericana [Novels and Portraits of South American Life] (in Spanish). Chronology by María Victoria González. Bogotá. pp. 405–406. ISBN 978-958-683-706-4. OCLC 254691569. Retrieved 2010-10-31.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ Bedoya Pérez, Juliana (2006-12-21). "Navidad, una cuestión de tradición" [Christmas, A Question of Tradition]. Revista Semana (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2007-10-20. Retrieved 2010-11-02.
^ Romero Acosta, Nistar. "Tiempo Para Rezar La Novena" [Time To Pray The Novena]. El Heraldo. Retrieved 2010-11-02.^{[permanent dead link]}

External links

Fray Fernando de Jesús Larrea; Sister María Ignacia Bertilda Samper, Novena de Aguinaldos (in Spanish)
Añez, Julio. Parnaso Colombiano: Colección de Poesías Escogidas [Colombian Parnassus: Selected Poetry of Bertilda Samper] (PDF) (in Spanish). Luis Ángel Arango Library. Retrieved 2010-11-02.