Resumen de Isabel de Josa, el impulso femenino en la fundación de la "Confraria de la Sang" de Barcelona (1536)
Isabel de Josa (1490-1564) is one of the most well educated and cultured women in the city of Barcelona in the first half of the 16th Century. She is the promoter of the Confraría de la Sang, one of the religious institutions with more repercussion in the Modern Times, organizer of the first procession of the Holy Week of the city and spiritual assistant to the condemned. Besides these activities, Isabel organized round the Capella del Peu de la Creu, the original headquarters of the brotherhood — in which also women participated—, a first refuge plan for orphan boys and girls and for women with difficulties that afterwards she will carry it out in Vercelli and Milan.
