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Venerable Mary of Agreda
Mystic and Visionary
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- Also known
as
- Maria de Agreda; Blue Lady; Lady in Blue;
Mother of the Sky
- Born wealthy, one of four
children born to Francis and Catherine Coronel. Hers was a pious family,
and the entire family eventually entered religious life in
1618 .
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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 in
1627, Mary held the position the remaining 38 years of her life.
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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.
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- Received an apparition of the Blessed
Virgin Mary which led to her enormous work, The Mystical City of God.
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Born
2 April
1602 in her family castle at Agreda, Spain
Died
1665 of natural causes; body incorrupt
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Additional Information
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Divine History and
Life of the Virgin Mother of God Manifested to Mary of Agreda (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.
- Venerable 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.
- Venerable Mary of Agreda
Catholic Forum of saints.