Coinciding with the year of consecrated life promoted by pope francisco and the 5 th centenary of the birth of st. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open. Her book the mystical city of god was serras constant companion all over the new world. In her youth maria, baptized maria coronel, demonstrated unusual piety and remarkable memory. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. They encompass the quiet depths of cloistered mysticism as well as the political and personal excesses of church and state in postreformation. The facts of sor marias life are often too extraordinary to fabricate. Throughout her life she maintained an unlikely cadre of friends and confidantes including then hapsburg monarch and defender of the faith, king felipe iv. City of god the biography of mary, has proved to be especially fruitful. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page.
Quill and cross in the borderlands university of notre dame press. Sor maria of agreda and the franciscan order in america. For thomas steele, society of jesus, english professor, whose lec tures, writings, and friendship taught me much about hispanic ca tholicism in the southwest. Quill and cross in the borderlands examines nearly four hundred years of history, folklore, literature, and art. Her parents were catherine and francis coronel who also had another daughter and two sons. Since leaving loreto in baja, this was serras third reference to the bilocating nun he believed preceded him to these parts a century earlier. 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. 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. All structured data from the file and property namespaces is available under the creative commons cc0 license. She was born of wealthy parents, in a castle at agreda, spain on april 2, 1602.