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Sor Maria de Jesus de Agreda
Life & Works of the Lady in Blue
From an early age, Sor Maria enjoyed highly refined spiritual perceptions and mystical ecstasies. At age four she was confirmed by St.Teresa of Avila's confessor, Bishop Don Diego de Yepes, who advised her family to take great care in her religious education. She longed to go the New World as a missionary, a role not then easily accessible to women. Eventually her mother transformed their ancestral home into a cloistered convent where she donned the veil as a Franciscan nun. Still, her indomitable missionary zeal was often unleashed in ecstasy after Communion, resulting in her experience of personally preaching to the North American Jumano Indians who dubbed her for all time as their beloved Lady in Blue.
Through correspondence, Sor Maria developed an unlikely cadre of friends and confidantes, including then Hapsburg monarch and Defender of the Faith, King Felipe IV. She advised the king on spiritual and temporal matters for twenty-two years until her death in 1665. Their collected correspondence is comprised of over 600 confidential letters. The facts of Sor Maria's life are often too extraordinary to fabricate. They encompass the quiet depths of cloistered mysticism as well as the political and personal excesses of church and state in post-Reformation Inquisition era Spain. The revelations in her books, that Mary is co-redemptoress of humanity and unheralded co-founder of the Church, are as relevant now as they were then. Hailed by Radiotelevisisn Espanol (RTVE) as one of the nine most influential women in Spanish history, Sor Maria has yet to be canonized a saint, though there has been increasing ground swell to do so since 1995.
Thanks for visiting, and come back soon! In the meantime, for availability of my new biography on Sor Maria, please click on the biography link in the left column, or email Marilyn Fedewa at: M dot Agreda @ Comcast dot Net , and be sure to put "Agreda Update Request" in the subject line, so your message doesn't get accidentally blocked by our Spam Control program!
Sor Maria de Jesus de Agreda
From an early age, Sor Maria enjoyed highly refined spiritual perceptions and mystical ecstasies. At age four she was confirmed by St.Teresa of Avila's confessor, Bishop Don Diego de Yepes, who advised her family to take great care in her religious education. She longed to go the New World as a missionary, a role not then easily accessible to women. Eventually her mother transformed their ancestral home into a cloistered convent where she donned the veil as a Franciscan nun. Still, her indomitable missionary zeal was often unleashed in ecstasy after Communion, resulting in her experience of personally preaching to the North American Jumano Indians who dubbed her for all time as their beloved Lady in Blue.
Through correspondence, Sor Maria developed an unlikely cadre of friends and confidantes, including then Hapsburg monarch and Defender of the Faith, King Felipe IV. She advised the king on spiritual and temporal matters for twenty-two years until her death in 1665. Their collected correspondence is comprised of over 600 confidential letters. The facts of Sor Maria's life are often too extraordinary to fabricate. They encompass the quiet depths of cloistered mysticism as well as the political and personal excesses of church and state in post-Reformation Inquisition era Spain. The revelations in her books, that Mary is co-redemptoress of humanity and unheralded co-founder of the Church, are as relevant now as they were then. Hailed by Radiotelevisisn Espanol (RTVE) as one of the nine most influential women in Spanish history, Sor Maria has yet to be canonized a saint, though there has been increasing ground swell to do so since 1995.
Thanks for visiting, and come back soon! In the meantime, for availability of my new biography on Sor Maria, please click on the biography link in the left column, or email Marilyn Fedewa at: M dot Agreda @ Comcast dot Net , and be sure to put "Agreda Update Request" in the subject line, so your message doesn't get accidentally blocked by our Spam Control program!