Inés de Guerrico Eguses, better known as Sor María Jacinta (Sister Maria Jacinta) (1793–1840), was a Capuchin nun and writer from the nascent republican Argentina attached to the confessional discourse of nuns present in the cloisters of South America between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries.
There are few biographical antecedents of Sister María Jacinta, most of which are available in chronicles of the monastery where she lived and the handwritten letters that she wrote at the beginning of the 19th century.
[2] Her parents were Don José de Guerrico and Doña María Micaela Eguses.
She belonged to the Order of Capuchin Poor Clares of the cloister of Nuestra Señora del Pilar in Buenos Aires,[2] which she entered on April 14, 1818.
[1][4] In this context is framed the literary work carried out by the nuns in the lodgings and convents of the continent between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, who mainly wrote spiritual letters, diaries, autobiographies, and epistolary genre.