Maria De (Coronel) Agreda, a Franciscan nun, lady superior of the convent of the Immaculate Conception (founded by her mother) at Agreda, in Spain, born in that town in 1602, died there, May 24, 1665. She professed to receive revelations direct from heaven. At the command of God, who appeared to her in a dream, as she said, she undertook to write the life of the Virgin Mary. It was first published in 1690, under the title Mistica Ciudad de Dios (4 vols.). Every word, according to her attestation, had been written under inspiration. The reading of it was forbidden at Rome, and the Sorbonne in Paris censured the individual who translated a portion into French. Bossuet exposed the indecencies of the work. It has been translated into German.