María Anna Águeda de San Ignacio
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María Anna Aguilar Velarde (March 3, 1695 – February 25, 1756), more commonly known as Sor María Anna Águeda de San Ignacio, was a Mexican author.
She was born in Atlixco in New Spain (now Mexico) to a Spanish father and an American mother.[1][2] In 1714, at the age of nineteen, she entered the Beaterio de Santa Rosa, a Catholic convent in Puebla.[1][3]
In 1740, she was elected abbess of the convent.[1] Aguilar was a prolific writer on religious subjects and her writing was highly regarded during her lifetime.[1][4] She authored four treatises on mystical and theological subjects as well as spiritual guidebooks for nuns.[3][4]
References
- ^ a b c d Wilson, James Grant; Fiske, John, eds. (1900). "Aguilar, María". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography.
- ^ Eich, Jennifer L. (2008). "Sor María Anna Águeda de San Ignacio". The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History. Oxford University Press.
- ^ a b Eich, Jennifer L. (2004). The Other Mexican Muse: Sor María Anna Áqueda de San Ignacio (1695 - 1756). New Orleans: University Press of the South. pp. 1–294. ISBN 1889431672.
- ^ a b McKnight, Kathryn Joy (1997). The Mystic of Tunja: The Writings of Madre Castillo, 1671 - 1742. Amhurst, Massachusetts: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. p. 200. ISBN 1558490744.
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