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Following an earlier monograph, Doa Mara Vela y Cueto, Cistercian Mystic of Spains Golden Age (Edwin Mellen Press, 2004), in which the life and spirituality of this almost unknown Cistercian nun living in the Spanish Golden Age, Dr. Margaret A. Rees now reproduces two works by Doa Mara Vela y Cueto. The first volume presents her Libro de las Mercedes , consisting of the spiritual diary of this nun who, being cloistered in the city of Avila, had witnessed the reforms and influence of St. Teresa dAvila and St. John of the Cross who recalls and records her own mystical experiences. Included in the second volume is her Vida , an autobiographical work composed in obedience to her spiritual director and reflecting the trials which could afflict a nun striving to stretch the boundaries of convent life as she aimed for sainthood.
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