Gregorio López

Life

Gregorio López, sometimes called the first hermit of the New World, was a Spanish hermit, mystical writer, lay ascetic, and herbalist who lived in New Spain. He became renowned in colonial Mexico for his austere solitary life, his reputation for sanctity, and his writings on medicine and biblical interpretation. He was the author of two works of very different character: the Tesoro de medicinas, a treatise on medicinal plants based partly on his own observations and his contact with Chichimeca peoples, and the Declaración del Apocalipsis.

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