![]() Had Jewish origins - in a land which persecuted those who dared practiceĭuring her career, Sister María would play a strange and mystic role in theĮxploration and colonization of New Spain and the Southwest. Spain's mysticism is that Santa Teresa, a central figure in the movement, To the spiritual dimension of Spanish Catholic life. Gratian and the painter El Greco, who, collectively, gave voice, energy and imagery Quintessential expression of the mystic Spain of the 17th century, a religiousĭescendant of figures such as the Discalced Carmelites' Santa Teresa and Jerome Of Ágreda in the province of Soria, northeast of Madrid. That would propel her to fame across Catholic Europe and into New Spain and theĪmerican Southwest even though physically, she never in her life left her hometown Sister María had experienced her first trance, the springboard to a mystic life Rose and hovered several feet above the floor. A beggar, apparently watching her surreptitiously,Ĭlaimed that a brilliant blue light enveloped her and that her comatose body Sister María Jesus de Ágreda, 18 years old, knelt to pray in the chapel. North-Central Spain the Franciscan Poor Clares' Convent of the ImmaculateĬonception at Ágreda Holy Communion the year, 1620: She left an enduring mark on the folklore of the desert.Ī Franciscan nun statue that suggests how the Lady in Blue might have appeared to the Indians. Nevertheless purportedly traveled by spirit - a phenomenon called "bi-location" or "teleportation" -īy the Church to minister to Indians in Arizona, New Mexico and western Texas. Who, physically, never left her convent in her country's province of Soria, she Surely ranks among the most strange and mysterious of them all. Legend of María Jesus de Ágreda - the fabled "Lady in Blue" or Spirit horses, unsolved murders and disappearances across the Southwest, the Of all the tales of lost treasure, ghosts, inexplicable lights, apparitions, The Blue Nun - María Jesus de Ágreda Mystical Missionary to the Indians
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