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María de Ágreda

At the same time, Fray Esteban de Perea had brought an inquiry to Benavides from Sor María's confessor in Spain asking whether there was any evidence that she had visited the Jumanos.

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From her early years, he writes, she was favored by ecstasies and visions and became a noted mystic of her era.

Juana de la Cruz Vázquez Gutiérrez

Her sermons influenced Poor Clares like Jerónima de la Asunción (foundress of the first Catholic monastery in the Philippines), Luisa de la Ascensión de Carrión (mystical poet) and Maria de Jesús de Ágreda (the Blue Nun of the Jumanos).

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