MarÃa de Ãgreda
María de Jesús de Ágreda ( also named as Mary of Agrada ) ( born April 2, 1602 Ágreda (Spain ), † May 24, 1665 ibid ) was a visionary, and abbess of the Franciscan convent in the Spanish town of Ágreda.
Life
After her family had converted their previous residence to a Franciscan monastery, Mary was (together with her mother and a sister) nun of this Convention " From the Immaculate Conception." Since 1627, she led them as the Abbess. She was known for her visions of the life of the Mother of God. After she had the first draft of this work, a prompt obedience to her confessor destroyed, it 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: " Mary is the mysterious rich city of God" ), Madrid 1670 The already in 1673 introduced beatification process is not yet complete, va. because of the content of the work broke up today ending a dispute in the Catholic Church (especially in the 17th and 18th centuries ). The work was in 1672 occupied by the Spanish Inquisition with fog, but released again in 1686; 1681 hl. Prohibited Offizium to Rome, but allowed after three months; Sentenced in 1696 on the occasion of the 1695 French translation appeared in Marseille " La Cité de Dieu mystique " of the Sorbonne, defended by other universities and theologians, however. 1704 placed on the Index, in 1705 but canceled again. One of their most important critics in the 18th century Eusebius Amort.
Work
Mística Ciudad de Dios. Madrid 1670 (English editing: .. , The spiritual city of God Life of Virgin Mother of God according to the revelations of the venerable María_von_Ágreda, Regensburg 1890, illustr popular edition, 1897. ).
Others
Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798) mentioned the writings of María de Ágreda in his memoirs "Histoire de ma vie" of 1791 /98 reading, which he had read in the lead chambers, the prison of Venice, ( " My imprisonment and escape from the Leads ").