This footage was filmed and produced 9 January 2023.

It became a spiritual reference in colonial Argentina in the eighteenth century, an era in which women occupied a very bleak background, and some consider it the first feminist in the country.

This is Maria Antonia de Paz y Figueroa, better known as Mama Antula -or "Mama Antonia", her nickname in Quechua-, who this Sunday becomes the first saint of Argentine origin.

The occasion will be particularly special for the head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis, not only because she is a compatriot, but because Mama Antula is one of the figures most revered by the Jesuits, the religious order to which Jorge Bergoglio belongs.

It was she who kept the Jesuit traditions alive in the region after the order was banished by the King of Spain.

Although she was born into a well-to-do family, Mama Antula spent most of her life on pilgrimage, barefoot, evangelizing and begging for alms to found "houses of exercises", places of retreat where the Jesuits perform the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola -the founder of the work- consisting of prayers, meditations and other contemplative practices.

SHOTLIST:
1. Various of the Basilica Nuestra Senora de la Piedad, where the remains of the Saint are;
2. Various of the faithful praying;
3. Various religious ceremonies.