María Anna Águeda de San Ignacio

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
  1. Wilson, James Grant; Fiske, John, eds. (1900). "Aguilar, María". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography.
  2. Eich, Jennifer L. (2008). "Sor María Anna Águeda de San Ignacio". The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History. Oxford University Press.
  3. 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.
  4. 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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