As other spaniards came to the territory where mary of agreda had made her visits, they found indians who remembered a lady in blue and her teachings of the doctrine of jesus christ. In 1620 she took her vows as a franciscan nun and in 1627 became abbess of a franciscan monastery in agreda, retaining this office, except for a brief period, until her death. Christened maria fernandez coronel, she donned the blue habit and took her vows as a nun in the franciscan order, and in 1627 she became abbess of the agreda franciscan monastery until her death in 1665. In this section we show a list and a brief description of the published works of sister mary of jesus of agreda. Since leaving loreto in baja, this was serras third reference to the bilocating nun he believed preceded him to these parts a century earlier. The case closed with mary of agreda exonerated of all suspicion. Woman thou art god sister maria jesus agreda the blue nun. Mary of agreda testimonies of her presence in the u. The existence of the bible justifies the query, whether there are not. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. Maria, who opened up to me his home, his files, and his contacts all over spain. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open. Her book the mystical city of god was serras constant companion all over the new world. Maria di agreda, nata maria fernandez coronel y arana agreda, 2 aprile 1602 agreda, 24 maggio 1665, e stata una mistica, cattolica, spagnola, appartenente allordine delle monache concezioniste francescane con il nome maria di gesu di agreda.
In her youth maria, baptized maria coronel, demonstrated unusual piety and remarkable memory. Or, according to her conventual title, maria of jesus a discalced franciscan nun. Laudetur jesus christus et virgo maria immaculata in aeternum. E stata unoriginalissima figura di donna, religiosa, mistica e scrittrice della spagna del xvii secolo. The mystical city of god book page stella maris media. Read in english by ann boulais the mystical city of god is a book written in the 17thcentury by the franciscan nun, venerable mary of jesus of agreda. Including the full ms publisher files to pdf files content of city of god, as written by mary of agreda and murator 06 2010 hq pdf later translated to. Inquisitors came to the agreda convent and questioned mother mary of jesus for 11 days with 80 questions, which covered her bilocations, her writings and also the erroneous information that she was involved in a plot against the spanish king.
Her virtues and holy life were universally acknowledged, but controversy arose over her. Life of the virgin mother of god, manifested to sister mary of jesus of agreda, 16021666 imprimatur h. Entrata giovanissima tra le clarisse del convento dellimmacolata concezione di agreda, ne fu ben presto nominata badessa. The mystical city of god book online the mystical city of god.
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