The biography used as a tributory instrument for a family: La 'Carta' about the Madre Josefa de San Juan Bautista

Cartas are written to notify the decease of a sister to the other nunneries of the order. They don't try to bo the only report about the dead nun, but a spiritual biography that is used for exemplifing. Moreover, in this case , the Carta shows te generosity of the family with the nunnery. So, it is a useful text for studying the complex relationshipd between reality and the literary constructions of biography.