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doi:10.1017/S0009640711000266 Maria of Agreda: Mystical Lady in Blue. By Marilyn H. Fedewa. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2009. xviii + 342 pp. $39.95 cloth; $29.95 paper.
In spite of the extensive scholarship on Spain's Counter Reformation, the extraordinary career of Maria de Jesus de Agreda 1602-1 665) has for centuries remained largely outside the purview of the non-Spanish-speaking world. The life of this Franciscan nun, abbess, and visionary (bom Maria Fernandez Coronel y Arana) unfolded during the same era of religious fervor that shaped the piety of Spain's most legendary saints-including Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross, and Ignatius of Loyola. As Marilyn H. Fedewa's illuminating biography makes clear, the spiritual genius of Maria of Agreda...