Celestial Cavalry is a book of chivalry to the divine, written in two parts by the Valencian Jerónimo de Sampedro, author of La Carolea.
The first part, which appeared in Antwerp in 1554, is a chivalric and allegorical version of the Old Testament, and in it are related, in the typical style of the books of chivalry, the lives of several of the patriarchs, prophets, judges and kings of Israel, presented as knights, while God is the Celestial Emperor. In the second part, the allegory refers to the New Testament, and its protagonist is Jesus, also presented as a knight-errant, son of the Celestial Emperor.
The work of Sampedro reached little popularity, but its treatment of the biblical subjects aroused misgivings in the Catholic Church, that included it in the Index of the prohibited books.
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