Enrique Llamas, O.C.D. La Madre Ágreda y la mariología del Vaticano II.

Abstract

The anniversary of the birth of Sor María de Jesú de Ágreda (1602-1665) stimulated a resurgence of interest in this remarkable Poor Clare (a.d.a. Conceptionist Franciscan), of Spain’s Marian “Golden Age”, famous for her widely disseminated Mistica Ciudad de Dios (=MCD). The Mother of Jesus, Son of God, is the “mystical city”, temple, tabernacle, shrine of the divinity. The initial threevolume edition was published in Madrid, 1670. The current edition, edited by C. Solaguren, O.F.M., Madrid, 1992, runs to 1509 pages. Composed between 1655 and 1660, MCD is an extended life of the Blessed Virgin, in its own fashion a complete Mariology. Very fanciful, relying on insights experienced in prayer, the book has had a rocky career. The Spanish Inquisition censured it in 1681, but under royal pressure the prohibition was lifted. The Sorbonne (University of Paris) did so again in 1696, scathingly.