Lady in Blue

The Lady in Blue tradition connects María de Jesús de Ágreda, a seventeenth-century Spanish nun, with accounts of a woman teaching Christianity to Indigenous communities in what became Texas and New Mexico. The claimed mechanism was bilocation: appearing elsewhere while remaining in Spain.

The Texas State Historical Association describes correspondence and missionary investigations prompted by the nun’s reported experiences and accounts attributed to Jumano visitors. Later Texas stories continued to feature a mysterious woman in blue, extending the tradition beyond her lifetime.

• Donald E. Chipman, “Agreda, María de Jesús de,” Handbook of Texas Online, Texas State Historical Association.