page_title: Mary of Jesus of Ágreda
section_title: Death and legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Mary of Jesus of Ágreda / Death and legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: Recumbent statue (above) and incorrupt body (below) of Sister Maria Jesus de Agreda, in the church of the Convent of the Conception of Agreda (Soria, Castile-Leon, Spain)Español: Estatua yacente (arriba) y cuerpo incorrupto (debajo) de Sor María Jesús de Ágreda, en la iglesia del Convento de las Concepcionistas de Ágreda (Soria, Castilla y León, España)
context_page_description: Mary of Jesus of Ágreda, OIC, also known as the Abbess of Ágreda, was a Franciscan abbess and spiritual writer, known especially for her extensive correspondence with King Philip IV of Spain and reports of her bilocation between Spain and its colonies in New Spain. She was a noted mystic of her era.
  A member of the Order of the Immaculate Conception, also known as Conceptionists, Mary of Jesus wrote 14 books, including a series of revelations about the life of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Her bilocation activity is said to have occurred between her cloistered monastery in rural Spain and the Jumano Indians of central New Mexico and West Texas, and inspired many Franciscan missionaries in the New World. In popular culture since the 17th century, she has been dubbed the Lady in Blue and the Blue Nun, after the color of her order's habit.
context_section_description: Less than ten years after her death, Mary of Jesus was declared Venerable by Pope Clement X, in honor of her "heroic life of virtue". Although the process of beatification was opened in 1673, it has not as yet been completed.
  Various misinterpretations of Mary's writings led to the  Mystical City of God being placed on the Church's Index Librorum Prohibitorum in August 1681, due to a faulty French translation published in 1678. The placement on the list of forbidden books proved temporary.
  The tradition of the apostle St James and the shrine of El Pilar, reputed to be the first church dedicated to Mary, was given by Our Lady in an apparition to Sister Mary Agreda recorded in The Mystical City of God, and is credited with instigating the rebuilding of the fire-damaged Cathedral Basilica in Zaragosa in the Baroque style in 1681 by Charles II, King of Spain, completed and rededicated in 1686.
caption: Lying below the blue recumbent statue is the incorrupt body of the Venerable María de Jesús de Ágreda in the Church of the Conceptionists Convent in Ágreda, Spain.
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