Preaching to the indigenous of the American Southwest, detail
By the colonial master José de Páez (1720-1790), the painting Santa María de Ágreda predicando a los indígenas is part of the collection of the Soumaya Museum in Mexico City. It was included in the exhibition Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial Word, held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Nov., 2011 - Jan., 2012, and subsequently in Mexico City at the Museo Nacional de Historia (Chapultepec Castle), July - Oct., 2012.
“While in a trance at her convent in Ágreda, Spain, she claimed to be spiritually present in New Mexico and other areas of what is now the American Southwest and Mexico. During her time in New Mexico, Sor María reported visiting the Jumano Indians, urging them to go to the Spanish missions and request that a missionary accompany them back to their pueblos and villages. By 1626, stories from New Mexico indicated that Native Americans were arriving at missions because a "Lady in Blue" had instructed them to seek out the priests there.” (See Salinas Pueblo Mission National Monument, National Park Services)
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“While in a trance at her convent in Ágreda, Spain, she claimed to be spiritually present in New Mexico and other areas of what is now the American Southwest and Mexico. During her time in New Mexico, Sor María reported visiting the Jumano Indians, urging them to go to the Spanish missions and request that a missionary accompany them back to their pueblos and villages. By 1626, stories from New Mexico indicated that Native Americans were arriving at missions because a "Lady in Blue" had instructed them to seek out the priests there.” (See Salinas Pueblo Mission National Monument, National Park Services)
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