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Mary of Jesus of Ágreda (Spanish: María de Jesús de Ágreda), OIC, also known as the Abbess of Ágreda (2 April 1602 – 24 May 1665), was a Franciscan abbess and spiritual writer, known especially for her extensive correspondence with King Philip IV of Spain and reports of her bilocation between Spain and its colonies in New Spain.
She made her profession on the feast of the Purification in 1620 as Sister Mary of Jesus. After she had consecrated herself to God through the holy vows, the young religious strove for perfection with holy earnestness and cheerful surrender to God.
Apr 14, 2021 · María de Jesús de Agreda (the Lady in Blue) was born in the Spanish village of Agreda near the border of Aragon and Navarre in April of 1602, the eldest daughter of Francisco Coronel and Catalina of Arana. In her youth María, baptized María Coronel, demonstrated unusual piety and remarkable memory.
Jul 1, 2020 · Jul 1, 2020. To read the life of Sister Mary of Jesus of Ágreda (Ágreda, Soria 1602—1665) is to discover one of the most influential women in 17th-century Spain, as can be seen in her correspondence with Philip IV, which started in 1643 when she was 41 years old and had become the Abbess of the Monastery of the Immaculate Conception in ...
María de Jesús de Ágreda, abbess and friend of the King of Spain. The Venerable Maria of Jesus was Mother Abbess of a Conceptionist convent in Agreda, Spain. Her remarkable management skills enabled the convent to prosper.
The figure of Sister Maria de Jesus of Ágreda, (1602-1665), the great Marian mystic of century XVII, occupies a first position between the great contemplatives of the Church. Her deep knowledge of the inner and spiritual life of the Virgin, as the first Christian, her particular and prolonged experience of the presence of Maria along her life ...
María de Agreda (born April 2, 1602, Agreda, Spain—died May 24, 1665, Agreda) was an abbess and mystic. 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.
