María Evangelista Quintero Malfaz

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María Evangelista Quintero Malfaz (born January 6, 1591 in Cigales , province of Valladolid , † November 27, 1648 in Casarrubios del Monte , province of Toledo ) was a Spanish Cistercian , abbess , founder of a monastery, reformer and mystic .

life and work

María Quintero Malfaz entered the Cistercian monastery of San Joaquín y Santa Ana (Valladolid) in 1609 and took the religious name Evangelista (after the Evangelist John ). Her brother and guardian made her a conversationalist , so that she could not become a chornonne until 1626. In 1633 she was sent with two sisters to found the Cistercian convent of Santa Cruz in Casarrubios del Monte, after a noble couple resident there, who had made their acquaintance at a court hearing in Valladolid, decided to found the convent with her as superior. From 1634 until her death in 1648 she was the abbess of the monastery, which still exists today. Mother María Evangelista experienced a blood miracle in 1648 . She joins the crowd of the Cistercian reformers Angélique Arnauld , Louise de Ballon , Jeanne de Pourlan and Françoise de Nérestang, also born in 1591 . Her holy life gave rise to the opening of a beatification process (with the Cistercian Pierdomenico Volpi as postulator ).

literature

  • Victorino Blanco: Una estigmatizada cisterciense. In: Cistercium 1953, pp. 226-239.
  • María José Pascual Alonso: Madre María Evangelista. Una aventura de amor. Convento de la Santa Cruz, Casarrubios del Monte (Toledo) 1992.
  • Óscar Antonio Solórzano: El Sentido de la historia, para conocer a Dios y renovar la Iglesia. Las revelaciones de María de San Juan Evangelista (1591-1648) . Monasterio Cisterciense de la Santa Cruz, Casarrubios del Monte 2016.
  • Madre María Evangelista Quintero Malfaz (1591-1648). Fondatrice del monastero cistercense della "S. Cruz", Casarrubios del Monte (Toledo). Postulazione Generale Ordine Cistercense, Rome without year.

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personal data
SURNAME Quintero Malfaz, María Evangelista
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish Cistercian and mystic
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1591
PLACE OF BIRTH Cigales , Valladolid Province
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 1648
Place of death Casarrubios del Monte , Toledo Province