Venerable Mary of Agreda, also known as Sister Mary of Jesus, was a 17th-Century Mystic in Spain who received supernatural revelations from Our Lady about her holy life, which she wrote and compiled into a magnificent four-volume work titled The Mystical City of God.
One event that Venerable Mary of Agreda described in her book can simply be called the greatest hug that ever took place in the history of the universe.
This embrace between Our Lord and His Blessed Mother after His triumph on the Cross and descent into the abode of the patriarchs, where He liberated all the righteous souls held there, to free the just that had gone before Him.
Our Lord’s soul was then united once again to His body, endowing it with radiant splendor and unimaginable glory.
As Our Lord accomplished this, Venerable Mary describes Our Lady as “aware of all these mysteries…and participating in them from her retreat in the Cenacle (the Upper Room).”
Venerable Mary of Agreda also describes what happened in Our Lady’s soul when Our Lord’s soul was reunited with His Body:“In the same instant in which the most holy soul of Christ entered and gave life to His body, the joy of her immaculate soul
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