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Agreda, Maria de
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
or Also known as Blue Lady
Lady in Blue
Maria of Ãgreda
Maria of Jesus
MarÃa Coronel Arana
Mother of the Sky
Profile Born wealthy, one of four children born to Francis and Catherine Coronel. Hers was a pious family, and all of them eventually entered religious life in 1618 - her father and brothers became Franciscan brothers, Mary, her mother and sister became Franciscan nuns, the castle was converted into a convent, and all the family's wealth was given to the poor. Chosen abbess of the convent of Agreda in 1627, Mary held the position the remaining 38 years of her life.
Mystic and visionary, she was given to ecstacies and trances. She had the gift of bilocation; in some of her trances she said she was teaching Christianity to people in foreign lands. A vision of her, known as the "Lady in Blue" was simultaneously reported teaching the native Tiguas and Caddoes in the areas of what are now New Mexico and Texas. Received an apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary which led to her enormous work, The Mystical City of God, the Divine History of the Virgin Mother of God, which provoked a bitter controversy over its claim to be a revelation. It was condemned by the Roman Inquisition in 1681, and by the Sorbonne in 1696; the Spanish Inquisition had previously pronounced in its favor. Her Cause for Canonization was introduced on January 28, 1673.
Born April 2, 1602 in her family castle at Agreda, Spain
Died May 24, 1665 in Ãgreda, Soria, Spain of natural causes; body incorrupt
Venerated; pending; if you have information relevant to the Cause of Sister Mary, contact
MM. Concepcionistas
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42100 Ãgreda (Soria), SPAIN
Works The Mystical City of God, the Divine History of the Virgin Mother of God (abridged)
Readings Not only was the Word conceived before all these by eternal generation from the Father, but His temporal generation from the Virgin Mother full of grace, had already been decreed and conceived in the divine mind. Inasmuch as no efficacious and complete decree of this temporal generation could exist without at the same time including his Mother, and such a Mother, the most holy Mary, was then and there conceived within that beautiful Immensity, and Her eternal record was written in the bosom of the Divinity, in order that for all the ages it should never be blotted out. She was stamped and delineated in the mind of the eternal Artificer and possessed the inseparable embraces of his love.
- Mary of Agreda It was revealed to me that through the intercession of the Mother of God, all heresies will disappear. This victory over heresies has been reserved by Christ for His Blessed Mother. Before the Second Coming of Christ, Mary must, more than ever, shine in mercy, might and grace in order to bring unbelievers into the Catholic Faith.
- Mary of Agreda
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Entry for 'Agreda, Maria de'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ncd/a/agreda-maria-de.html. 1910.
