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The
Convent of the Conception publishes the official website for Sor Maria from the same building in Agreda, Spain which she constructed in the first half of the 17th century, and where her uncorrupted body still resides. (This is the same website as the one listed in the left column as "official.") Thanks for visiting, and come back soon! In the meantime, for availability on my upcoming book / biography on Sor Maria, please
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!
The
Catholic Encyclopedia, a la 1907, gives an official perspective on Sor Maria's merit and favor, highlighting the ascerbic diatribes rendered by the Sorbonne University of Paris in 1686. The 2003 CE edition (not available online) bypasses all the old gory detail in favor of material derived exclusively from TD Kendrick's biography of Sor Maria, mainly correct, published in London in 1967.
The
Vatican sponsored a Marian Conference in Agreda in 2002, highlighting Sor Maria's major work on Mary, Mystical City of God. As of May 2003, the Vice Postulator for her Cause for Sainthood says her prospects for Beatification are good.
Professor Clark Colahan offers an insightful and scholarly perspective on Sor Maria's many contributions, in The Visions of Sor María de Ágreda: Writing Knowledge and Power (The University of Arizona Press: Tuscon & London, 1994), to the chagrin of some reviewers who did not agree with his pro-feminist take on Sor Maria's challenges and cotnributions.
The
Handbook of Texas Online Library offers excellent background and references on Sor Maria's supernatural appearances in the American Southwest in the 17th century.
The
WIKIPEDIA Online Encyclopedia has some interesting material on King Philip IV of Spain, relevant to the era and his correspondence with Sor Maria de Agreda. It appears to derive from Encyclopedia Britannica, which also has another entry for Sor Maria as a part of their great online subscription service. (Although her birth name was not "Maria Fernandez Coronel," as they say, but rather "Maria Coronel y Arana.")
Marilyn H. Fedewa