As the Jesuits showed their devotions to father Antonio Núñez de Miranda (1618-1695) through various buildings, great prestige and many alms, it is difficult to admit that he would have had problems in his own Order. Nevertheless, the thesis of this article is that father Antonio was much less powerful within the home than in Mexico City. Our point of departure is the recent discovery of J.A. Rodríguez Garrido in Lima: two eulogies of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz that prove the great power of Sor Juana’s admirers in 1691, and they also teach us that the young and brilliant Jesuit Juan Antonio de Oviedo, denounced until now as a supporter of Nuñez, was a friend and once an accomplice of Sor Juana. A more prudent reading of the hagiography of the deceased father (1702) leaves to be seen a series of accidents and anomalies. We know that in the Peninsula, Sor Juana had an intelligent friend, Diego Calleja; it also has to be taken into account the unexpected and enthusiastic praises of the three Jesuits in the paratexts of the second volume of the works of the poet (1692). [TRANSLATION]