María from Ágreda

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María de Jesús de Ágreda

María de Jesús de Ágreda (also known as Maria von Agrada ) (born April 2, 1602 in Ágreda ( Spain ); † May 24, 1665 ibid) was a visionary and abbess of the Conceptionist Convention in the Spanish town of Ágreda.

Life

Abbess's coffin in Ágreda

After her family had converted their previous home into a monastery, Maria (together with her mother and a sister) became a nun of this convent “Of the Immaculate Conception” (Franciscan conceptionists). From 1627 she headed it as abbess. She became known for her visions about the life of the Blessed Mother . After she had destroyed the first copy of this work, obeying a request from her confessor, she was moved by renewed visions to write down the whole multi-volume work again. After her death it was published under the title “Mistica Ciudad de Dios” (“The mystical city of God”, title of the German edition: “Maria the mysterious city of God”), Madrid 1670. The beatification process , which began in 1673, has not yet been completed . a. because a dispute broke out in the Catholic Church (especially in the 17th and 18th centuries) about the content of the work. The work was seized by the Spanish Inquisition in 1672 , but released again in 1686; Forbidden by the Holy Office in Rome in 1681 , but allowed again after three months; Condemned by the Sorbonne in 1696 on the occasion of the French translation "La mystique Cité de Dieu" published in Marseille in 1695, but defended by other universities and theologians. Added to the index in 1704, but deleted again in 1705. One of its most important critics was Eusebius Amort in the 18th century .

When the coffin was opened in 1909 and 1989, medical examinations revealed that her body was completely intact . In Roman Catholic and Orthodox hagiography, this is usually taken as a sign of the holiness of the deceased.

plant

Mística Ciudad de Dios. Madrid 1670 (German version: The spiritual city of God. Life of the virgin Mother of God according to the revelations of the venerable María_von_Ágreda. , Regensburg 1890, illustrated popular edition, 1897).

Others

Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798) mentions the writings of María von Ágreda in his memoir “ Histoire de ma vie ” from 1791/98 as reading that he would have read in the lead chambers, the prison of Venice (“ Meine Gefangenschaft und Flucht aus the lead chambers ”).

literature

  • Joseph v. Görres: Die Christian Mystik II. 1879, p. 586 ff.
  • Franz Heinrich Reusch: The index of forbidden books II / 1. 1885, p. 233 ff.
  • DThC I, 1903; - EC I, 570 f. *
  • LThK I, 207; RE I , p. 248 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ O'Brien, Christopher, Enter the Valley (St. Martin's Paperbacks, 1999)
  2. ↑ Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Histoire de ma fuite des prisons de la République de Venise qu'on appelle les Plombs. Ecrite a Dux en Boheme l'année 1787 . Leipzig 1788
  3. ↑ Giacomo Casanova: My Captivity and Escape from the Lead Chambers , edited and transferred by Friedrich Wencker-Wildberg, licensed edition for Verlagsgruppe Weltbild GmbH 2007, p. 89.
personal data
SURNAME María from Ágreda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES María de Jesús de Ágreda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Visionary and abbess of the Franciscan convent in Agreda
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1602
PLACE OF BIRTH Ágreda , Spain
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 1665
Place of death Ágreda , Spain