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Mystical City of God
You can read this Catholic ebook from any computer or ereader (Ipad, Kindle, Nook, etc.) that can display a pdf download. Technology has allowed us to increase our own private libraries in ways that were till now unimaginable. We are grateful to this technology for allowing us to own and distribute The Mystical City Of God when we otherwise would not have been able. We explain more about the four volume set below. Order it here. We would like to let the four volume book speak for itself about the virtues of the beautifully incorrrupt Maria de Jesus de Agreda and the occasion of this most beautiful of Catholic books.
Mary of Agreda"Mary of Agreda "was the daughter of Francis Coronel and Catherine of Arana, born April 2, 1602, in the small town of Agreda near Tarazona in Spain. In 1617 she entered the convent of the discalced Franciscan Nuns in the Convent of the Immaculate Conception in Agreda and took her vows one year later. In 1625 she was chosen abbess, much against her wishes, and, except during a short intermission, was re-elected every three years until she died, in 1665. The fame of her prudence and foresight, not only in the gov government of her convent but in other matters, soon spread outside the convent walls and persons of the highest rank in state and Church were eager to obtain her counsel in important affairs. King Philip IV visited her several times in her convent and corresponded with her about national affairs for many years."
Virtues of Mother Mary of Agreda"But she was no less famous for her exalted virtues. In many respects her life was a faithful copy of that of St. Francis. The miracle of bilocation related of her is in fact more remarkable and lasted a longer time than that recorded anywhere in the lives of the saints. Her good sense, her truthfulness, her sincerity, her humility, her unselfish love of God and man eminently adapted her for the communication of messages from God to men." (p. xiv-xv)An evidence of this today is that she is incorrupt!
Writing The Mystical City Of GodWe are so edified by Ven. Mary of Agreda's heroic reserve and obedience in writing the Mystical City of God:"Though she was urged interiorly and exteriorly to record the facts of history revealed to her concerning the Mother of God, she resisted for twelve years and was finally induced to write only through the positive commands of her superiors. Reluctantly she began her his tory in the year 1637 and finished it in the year 1645, continually asking to be relieved from the task because she thought herself unworthy. As soon as the insistence of her superiors relaxed and an error of judgment on the part of an outside confessor gave her a plausible excuse, she burned all her writings, thus destroying the labor of many years. When this came to the knowledge of the higher authorities and when they insisted on her rewrit ing the history which continued to be supernaturally made known to her, she again succeeded in delaying the task for ten years. Only the strictest command under obedience and the threat of censures finally induced her to write the manuscript which she began in 1655 and finished in 1665, and which is still preserved in the conventof Agreda." (p. xv)
About The Mystical City Of GodA note from the Note To The Reader:"The Church has as yet given no public and full ap proval to private revelations of any kind; nor will she ever do so, since that would be really an addition to the deposit of faith left by Christ. But tacitly and indirectly she has approved many private revelations, and among them the writings of Mary of Agreda. She could well do so, since there are no writings of that kind which exhibit more reliable human proofs of divine origin than the 'Ciudad de Dios' of the Venerable Servant of God, Mary of Jesus of Agreda." (p. ii) We would like to ask your prayers for the repose of the soul of Fr. Albert Drexel who was instrumental in our finding the Mystical City of God and presenting it to you as a Catholic Ebook.
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