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. Throughout her life she maintained an unlikely cadre of friends and confidantes including then hapsburg monarch and defender of the faith, king felipe iv. At the age of six she had attained a high degree of prayer, which was noticeable in her devotion to the blessed virgin mary and. Including the full ms publisher files to pdf files content of city of god, as written by mary of. Libro nuevo o segunda mano, sinopsis, resumen y opiniones. This work is published for the greater glory of jesus christ through his most. The birth of jesus in bethlehem mary of agreda 4 kingdoms. 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 mystical city of god volume iii by venerable mary of agreda. Manifested to sister mary of jesus, prioress of the convent of the immaculate. E stata unoriginalissima figura di donna, religiosa, mistica e scrittrice della spagna del xvii secolo. Life of the virgin mother of god, manifested to sister mary of jesus of agreda venerable mary of agreda s body has remained incorrupt for more than 340 years mary of agreda died on the 24th of may, 1665 a. Her virtues and holy life were universally acknowledged, but controversy arose over her.
Her book the mystical city of god was serras constant companion all over the new world. The admirable life of the glorious patriarch saint. In her youth maria, baptized maria coronel, demonstrated unusual piety and remarkable memory. Very early the child showed special signs of grace. 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. 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. The mystical city of god popular abridgement by venerable mary. The mystical city of god is a book written in the 17thcentury by the franciscan nun, venerable mary of jesus of agreda. The work alternates between descriptions of the trini. Maria d e jesus, oic, also known as the abbess of agreda 2 april 1602 24 may 1665, was a franciscan abbess and spiritual writer, known especially for her extensive correspondence wit h king philip iv of spain and reports of her bilocation between spain and its colonies in new spain. Or, according to her conventual title, maria of jesus a discalced franciscan nun. Sor maria was also a prolific author and correspondent, her signature work being a devotional multivolume series on mary of nazareth entitled mystical city of god.