Pre-Christian Marian Apparitions in America?

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In some old Reader’s Digest book at my house (it’s kind of like an encyclopedia/atlas about the United States), in a section about folklore, it says something that is VERY interesting:
**The Blue Lady. **A beautiful girl, dressed all in blue, she visited Indian tribes of the Southwest to tell them about the Christian God before the arrival of any Christian missionaries in the region. Indians spoke of her to some of the first Spanish explorers who arrieved in New Mexico, Arizona and Texas. From time to time her appearance is still reported.
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This sounds a lot like an early Marian apparition! But I’ve never heard about it anywhere else besides in this book. Has anyone ever heard of anything like this and what information do you know about it? Thoughts?
 
This is not a Marian Apparition… ** The Blue Lady ** is the Venerable Maria De Agreda… she was a nun who lived in Spain and had the ability to bi-locate (be in 2 places at the same time) much like Saints suchs as Padre Pio also did.

She taught the indigenous peoples in the Southwest there before the Spanish Conquistadors arrived about the Christian faith and once they encountered the indigenous peoples they were suprised to see that they had crosses and had knowledge of the Christian faith.

Ven. Maria de Agreda wrote a book called “The Mystical City of God” about the life of the Virgin Mary that in a condensed version is 1,000 pages long! :eek:

I will see if I can find the online version of this book for you.

Aha! I found it fast…

Here’s the link:

geocities.com/Athens/Ithaca/7194/

The body of Ven. Maria de Agreda is on display… I forgot the name of the place, but, she looks incredible in the pictures I saw of her body.

God bless all
 
I don’t know much about her besides what is contained in this thread, but how is Maria De Agreda not a saint after all that?
 
** animachristi ** you’re welcome 😃

** genesis315 ** Well, the only thing I can tell you is that not too many people know about Ven. Maria de Agreda… even in her native Spain she is lesser known than she is in the United States.

Also, there was some controversy concerning her writings and she went through trials because of this to the point where her writings were put on the Forbidden books list by the church and then the ban was lifted on her books in the late 1700’s.

As with the process of any person considered Venerable or Blessed… you need a miracle to be verified by the church before you can be made a saint.

The same is true for another Blessed by the name of Kateri Tekakwitha… If few people are praying to them and asking for their intercession then it just makes the cause for their sainthood that much harder.

I think in Maria de Agreda’s case… perhaps Our Lady wants more emphasis on her writings than on sainthood for her.

Here is a link to a page where you can view a picture of Venerable Maria de Agreda in her glass coffin… just scroll down a bit to see it. I have viewed color pictures of the same glass coffin, but, can’t find them.

tmv.us/site/Investigations/Blue_Nun.html

God bless all
 
This is fascinating; I can’t believe more people do not know about this!
 
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I think in Maria de Agreda’s case… perhaps Our Lady wants more emphasis on her writings than on sainthood for her.
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I was with you all of the way until you wrote this.

Our lady has nothing to say about it, perhaps God wants more emphasis on her writings.

However even that is problematic since recognition of her sainthood would probably bring her writings to public attention, but that is not my main point.
 
** hesychios ** Well, I said “perhaps” this is what Our Lady wants, not that this is definitely 100% what Our Lady wants… All is guesswork in terms of God’s will on my part on the subject of who is to become a Saint or not in the Catholic church.

I have found that the more obscure or lesser known some mystical writings are, that there are those who make a stronger effort to search for these writings and appreciate them more… Unlike those readily available and not as appreciated by the masses.

Lastly, if Our Lady has nothing to say about it… then the over 1,000 pages of the Mystical City of God given to Ven. Maria de Agreda to write that put an EMPHASIS on the Blessed Mother as Co-Redemptorist speaks for itself.

The title Co-redemptorist being a hard thing for some to understand back then.

Yes, I know it is all God’s will… but, “perhaps” Our Lady can give some of us the special grace to find that out for ourselves.

God bless all
 
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