Spanish or Colonial School. 17th - 18th century. "Venerated Lady María Jesús de Ágreda in her study” Oil on canvas. 42 x 36 cm. This painting is especially important, because apart from the engravings, there are very few pictorial examples on canvas and only some sculptures of the Venerable Mary Jesus, in which she is usually portrayed in her role as a writer. Even so, they are scarce, and most of them are devotional. Legend has it that Sor Mary Jesus of Ágreda taught the Faith to the Indians of Southern Mexico through bilocation, since she never left Spain. Sister María Jesús de Ágreda (1602-1665) was just one of the many cloistered nuns who were said to be able to unfold and visit distant places to evangelise. As Andrés González indicates: “Throughout her life we ​​can highlight three aspects: her strong spirituality, marked by moments of ecstasy and penitential acts; the phenomenon of bilocation, by which she participates in the evangelization of the California area; and her facet as a writer, both of books and epistles. In the first years of her cloistered life, we find one of the most interesting aspects of the venerable Lady, her bilocating capacity, for which, without leaving the convent of Ágreda, she appeared in America catechizing the Indians. Circa 1620, in the northern part of South America, the Indians went to the Franciscans voluntarily asking to be baptized, surprising the missionaries because they had not come to them to instruct them. The Indians reported having received a visit from the "Blue Lady of the Plains," a beautiful woman dressed in blue, who had instructed them to go and be baptized. These events ceased in 1623.” Reference bibliography: Patricia Andrés González : “Iconografia de la Nenerable María de Jesús de Agreda”