ABSTRACT

In the year 1629, when more than many year had passed since we had had any news from Spain, there arrived in New Mexico the thirty friars sent to us at that time by the Catholic king. These friars told us from an account which had been given them the previous year by the archbishop of Mexico, that it was common news in Spain that a nun named Maria de Jesús de la Concepcion, of the Discalced order of Saint Francis, residing in the town of Agreda in the province of Burgos, was miraculously transported to New Mexico to preach our holy Catholic faith to those savage Indians.