La Santa del diablo, Sor Magdalena de la Cruz _ Relatos del lado oscuro

0:00 On the third day of May of 1, 500 forty- six in Spain, in Cordoba, province of Andalusia, a trial was held, an inquisitorial trial, that is, of the Spanish inquisition. The trial as such was led neither more nor less by Cardinal Jiménez, who was one of the most prominent figures, not only of the Inquisition, but in general, of the Spanish Catholic Church. It was a strange trial, a trial that at the same time had put people in favor of the inquisition and people severely against it.

0:43 And that' s because the person who was going to be prosecuted was an old woman. We' re going for sixty- one years, a woman. But what was even more worrying to the Church herself is that this woman was nothing but a nun and nun who had been considered a saint in life. And, in addition to being considered holy in life, he had been recognized as a person of great piety and special endowments, to the point where the nobility itself, including the King and Queen of Spain, had come to ask for prayers from this person who was now to be tried. But worst of all, the motive for the prosecution was a pact with the devil.

1:32 As I am telling you, covenant with the devil, and not only was it a classic question of the inquisition of applying torments to you and you confess. Not in this case had confession come before, since a thousand nine hundred forty- four, two years ago, this woman, after an exorcism, had confessed incredible things. Companion. We begin accounts of the dark side, beings, strangers, unexplainable events, divers stories that other minds prefer to ignore. It all begins in one thousand four hundred and eighty- seven, an extraordinarily poor artisan family lives in Cordoba, in the province of Andalusia, at a time when it was still Moorish territory, Arab territory where wars had come after wars, destruction. She was one of the many daughters in the family. They were large families. When she was born she was called Magdalene,

3:05 in attention to Mary Magdalene, who was somehow a special woman in the Bible text and who also represented the person who repented. But the parents didn ' t think much about it. They just liked the name and so they put it. They were so anonymous people that even the parents' names didn ' t go down in history. That gives you an idea of the kind of people who were so humble, so poor. The fact is that this creature begins very soon to develop strangers, habits, very soon at two or three years. He speaks perfectly and has learned to pray and has learned to pray. Let' s put it that way. She is a little girl, and yet she shows these strange signs that are seen by the parents with intrigue and a certain distrust, such a little creature that starts with religious issues and starts that she wants to go to church and all this and gets more and more complicated in one day of a procession something very strange happens. He goes through the procession with his censers, with the bells, with the most holy sacrament opposite, there they show him. People come back and this is a little girl. At that time, I' d be about four years old and maybe five years old. People are passing in front of the house

4:36 of these potters, these artisans. And the little one can' t see through the window. He can' t see through the window. He fervently desires that he may reach out to see it, but he cannot. And then he knows what happens before the astonishment of many of those people, the wall opens to let the little girl see to pass the sacrament and, of course, that generates an avalanche of words of astonishment and surprise and so on, to the point that the priest has to ask attention and continue in this. But he himself would be marked by that strange vision where the wall opens and there is a little girl watching them pass that follows. I would like to make it clear to you that much of what I am going to tell you can be called into question or may have an explanation. I' m not securing anything, just telling the story. The fact is that that little muffin girl is still very fervent and when she is five years old, she is such a fervor that she barely ends up with a little thing that she has been commissioned and runs out to get into the Church and be there praying.

5:56 It' s a very rare thing. People have noticed this and come to their attention. But that is where the strangest story begins, because in one of those moments when the Church arrives to pray, she suffers an ecstasy, a mystical ecstasy is absent. But at the same time, she inside and strangely, is aware of everything, and that is when she is visited by an image she interprets as Jesus Christ himself, a man who emits lights with a black hair, young of great beauty, who approaches her and speaks to her and well, well, well, that mystical appearance would mean a lot to her. He was barely five years old at such a point that, at the end of that ecstasy, far from going home, he decided to escape and run to a cave, a cave that was somewhere over there and get in there to stay in prayer and carry on with these ecstasy.

7:00 Of course, he is absent in a very short time. She might have fallen asleep, like knowing she was a five- year- old girl. But, anyway, the weirdest part is that she doesn' t remember the way she came home, when the parents are frantically looking for her and desperately because they' ve been lost. The last thing they knew was that he had gone to church. When they find her, she is in her bed, lying quietly, when the father and mother wake her up to ask what happened that where she was. He tells them that extraordinary story of having gone to the cave and suddenly meeting in his room, being taken by his guardian angel. Although there are those who claimed that San Francisco himself came and brought all this was a very strange situation, but at the same time and if you are careful, they could be simple coincidences suggestions. The little girl might well have peeked out of one of the cracks, from the wall of the house. Do not forget that these were territories that had been hit hard by the war and many of these houses had holes in the walls and similar things.

8:07 So it might well have been that and no one had noticed. The little girl could have hidden herself in the cave because of some kind of childhood dream or childish illusion of becoming a saint like all those saints who talked to them, because even when she was little and even when the Mass was in Latin, the fact is that there were also sermons that were made in Spanish, in Spanish and, therefore, she could have heard at some point stories of these saints who went through hardships, tremendous and sacrifices, and she was looking for that very well. So far everything goes very well and life goes on. But it has become famous, knows Magdalenita, this little girl.

8:52 It has become a barbarous fame that this light has this gift, because when it goes the church was completely ecstatic to hear the divine word and while it is there, it is seen with the little eyes absent and it is so strange everything and when it speaks, it speaks it with so much wisdom. And she' s a little girl who' s in prayer all the time. Come on, people start to believe that this girl has something, something mystical, something holy and, of course, there are those who come up to ask the baby to pray for her son or her husband, for all this and in the local world she is making a fame, a little fame, things that go around here and things that go there. And suddenly someone comes in and asks for a favor and someone brings a little present for the girl and all this goes down and that' s how time goes on.

9:46 And suddenly when we realize, Magdalenita is no longer six years old or seven, now she is ten and she is a little girl who, as we were told, was very pretty, but she is still the same, the same more religiosity, the same dedication to mystical questions and to prayers and all that. And when the time comes for the first Communion, tremendous, the child stops eating completely for three months. There is one total in preparation for receiving the consecrated host and so it does even though the mother begs, the father begs, does not approve of a bite, but that is not all.

10:28 Besides that, little Magdalene, now about ten years old, is still in these rolls. That I go to church and I pray all day long. The mother is desperate, but she cannot shout at her, because people also come to look for her when the day of the first Communion arrives. That is a very rare thing, because when she arrives at the Church to present herself to the priest and gives the girl the host she suffers a mystical outburst and falls to the ecstatic floor and when she reacts, it turns out that she has the host in her mouth. I mean the consecrated host. He' s got it in his mouth, but the priest hasn' t given it to him. He didn' t put the bread there He didn ' t get it mystically. It is a mystical communion, of course, that that awakens to amazement And ah of course everyone sees that with very big eyes. The priest himself is as impressed and the people have a special treatment as Santa. But she knows what. She does not feel holy, she does not feel holy, she feels that she does not deserve that, that she deserves a punishment for the sins of humanity to achieve forgiveness. Only God knows what' s right in his head. The fact is that coming to Casa Harta they consider that she is Santa and all this and that she feels that she is not and that one must seek forgiveness from others and piety.

11:54 And besides, she looks pretty and thinks she' s pretty and the first thing she says is I can' t be pretty. I can' t be this. This is vanity is sin and come take some nails, a hammer and try to crucify. I don' t know how he did it, but he puts a nail in his hand and a big one on his feet. The point is that, obviously, you cannot crucify yourself. But that has caused him such pain and such bleeding that he ends up fainting when he loses consciousness. He begins to hang up to the point where the wound itself opens and ends by breaking the tissues, by breaking the tissues and comes falls as he has tried to lift a bit using a bench, ends up front, is unconscious and when he falls to the floor, is hit with something, fractures the ribs, is hurt horribly when they find him good.

12:48 That' s a tragedy. She' s bathed in blood. The doctor ' s coming to clean the wounds. Of course, remove those nails, all that barbarity and lie down. They sell the wounds, put some ointment on it, something I don' t know what the doctors would use back then. The fact is, she' s asleep in her bed. When suddenly, well, she reacts awake, she is seen to be healed and the first thing she does is tear off her bandages to cause further bleeding and those of her feet as well. And, well, the doctor has to come back and do the same, but he knows what he does sneaking around again. As soon as no one sees it, the bandages are removed and, of course, the sanitary conditions in a poor house of this Renaissance era, in a town like Córdoba, were not very good. So very soon he starts having an infection. The fever, the two blows he received on his side and chest cause another infection. He starts recording, he starts going to the point where the doctor comes and tells him they' re dying and I can' t do anything. But she has there a mystical communion, something very rare, because in the midst of that, of those delusions and of those fevers, she again has the visit of that Jesus who has seen of that being of great beauty, who approaches her and tells her not to worry, that it will be very well, taking her hands holding her tightly

14:18 and lifting her up and then she is healed. The problem is that from that, in that way in which he has held his small fingers, the pinky fingers would not grow any more. It is possible that it was from the wound, but it was only wounded in one hand, the other not, and yet both fingers remained in a ridiculously small way. People, of course, felt that it was because he had touched her there, that Christ had held her hand and that it was also part of the miracle. And this kept growing because in addition, this girl was pointed out as knowing what people were saying to what people thought without much, at least that' s what they were saying. We have no way of knowing. Actually. This happened four hundred and eighty years ago and there are not many written testimonies or anything. Therefore, the only thing left is what was discussed later in that trial, which I have told you there, what has been said there is the strong testimony that there is and a couple of stories out there printed from the point period. The point is that this girl goes forward and continues with the idea of going to the convent, of becoming a nun, of giving herself completely to the divinity, to Christ, as you want to call her, she has that idea. The option she has left, being a daughter of such a poor family, is to become a clairvoyant dependent on the nuns

15:48 of the Franciscans. In that case, the Clares did not ask for a dowry, but they entered certain conditions, which practically went into domestic work, but from there they could go on to become nuns. In other associations. Obviously, it was difficult, because it required paying a dowry, giving money in exchange for letting him in. This girl does it, but don' t lose sight that in these dreams she has had these images that go to her, that come to her and tell her things and that ask her to do certain things. Not only is the image of the Christ that radiant of the black hair, sometimes also accompanied by this other man of color, a man of color the dark skin that accompanies him. I remember an episode of something we were talking about a little African- descendant boy and it has a lot to do with it. The point is, she' s still committed to entering the convent, and that wasn' t so hard for her.

16:53 He knows for two main reasons. The first, because they were the clairvoyances that allowed that. And the second, because they were very famous, was almost considered as the Saint of Cologne, for her gifts of wisdom, of prayer, of giving of mercy, of sacrifices, because this little girl, even though she was at home, still used to be fasting, used to be self- punished in the ways within her reach. And all this had brought Santa' s fame to him. So when the convent finds out who it is and all that accepts it and lets it in as Novice, it is very young. At that time, when he entered as Novicia, very young, the entrance to the convent would be in 1, 500 four of seventeen years old and went to the convent of Santa Isabel de los Angeles in Cordoba. Precisely that convent that we have behind us and since it has arrived has begun to do things that were unusual. He was barely seventeen years old, yet he spoke of mercy and fulfilled it, died, reported openly, but also did things that others would not do. For example, he was carrying a cross all over the courtyard of the convent, which was not very well seen. And yet, all of a sudden, he did the tasks that no one wanted to do, the dirty things, the things that were considered inappropriate or denigrating. She made them and sometimes knelt and kissed the feet

18:23 of others and then put cilia and lilies on her legs. To hurt himself, he slammed his back. It was something I' d done before. It was well known that when he was about sixteen years old, he used to hurt his back by slamming himself that disappeared the next day. I insist I can' t be sure it was true. I' m just telling a story. But here comes the weird part of all this. While, on the one hand, she seemed so perfect, so pure, so pious for all these things, on the other hand, it was shocking that she made it public. It was strange to see her flogging in front of her partners. That wasn' t done. If someone was going to apply a punishment for some petty thing he had, he would do it in private, but she made it public. In addition, he did things as strange as taking off his shoes, watering broken glass and walking on glass internally. She has continued to have the visions, the visions of this character that assures her that everything will be fine as long as she does what this person says or this being that appears to her and she does. And that' s how unusual things start to happen. Suddenly this girl starts praying and turns around and

19:56 tells someone today she' s going to die. Suddenly, when someone comes to visit the convent, she comments without knowing who is there, because she remembers that these convents were completely closed. So the visit was over there and there was a caring nun who was watching over what was being talked about on the lathe or where these species of locutories were. There was a nun who looked after, there was the doorman, and there was the guard who watched that nothing inappropriate was said. So she didn' t have to approach and yet she knew who was and could say things about those people. And this was again creating this halo of mystery, this aura of grandiosity, to the point that it became famous, very famous. People began to approach to ask if they could talk to the saints, if they could ask the saint a favor. But now it was no longer in the Community, in its place where it was born. Now they were people of the great city, some of them of great economic capacity, who came to leave money for the Holy One to pray for them or come to ask them things. And this was becoming more and more and more, because everyone knew that this pious saint had contact with the souls of purgatory, as I tell her. It was rumored that she could speak to the people who were in purgatory, the blessed souls of purgatory, those who have died and who have not migrated to heaven,

21:30 but are not guilty enough to go to hell. It is this intermediate point of Catholic eschatology. It is a place where those sinful souls are theoretically, but not so sinful. And the fact is that she could talk to them, help them, and then people came back and asked to know from their family member X that he had died, from a stone, from Juanito, whomever he was from, and she told them that she would look for them and help them and then come with news. But they were strange things. And not only do I mean that they turned out strange, because in itself saying that you talk to the dead in purgatory is strange, but saying that they talked to the stone that had died six months ago and sent specific errands, with key news, let' s go, it revealed things that had no way of knowing through natural ways. And that became even stronger because, moreover, she was aware of everything that was going on in the city and yet she didn' t come out at all and she didn' t talk to people directly, so she didn' t have a way of contact to get informed and was more informed than the bishop himself, but it wasn' t about what the others told her. Not in fact, she was a very silent sister, she did not usually speak silently, immersed in her thoughts, in her prayers. With these weird things and the day comes when he ' s going to take the vows. The profession is such the fame of

23:04 this little woman that she will first officially order herself to wear the veil properly at barely twenty- two years of age, which was very unusual. But not only that she' s going to order herself. There' s not gonna be another group of girls there to take the vows. This is important. Normally, when it came to novices who were already going to make the vows, ten or twelve girls gathered together to make a celebration and all that she did not, she entered the church alone and to finish demolishing the thing, the one who would serve the Mass was no more or less than the cardinal. That was something out of context. Such was the fame that the cardinal himself at the time when he is about to make the prayer and address a few words to him, does not address a few words like to anyone who is given to you to be correct, to lead a life of fullness.

24:03 I bless you. No. No. No. No. No. What the Cardinal does is ask for his help. That awakens a lot of whispers and signs of amazement, because the Cardinal himself is asking him to pray for him and for the Church. But worse still comes a time when something happens that is very rare and everyone confessed to having seen it, and it is that, when they begin to sing the Kiriy the Aison, suddenly a white dove appears inside the Church that sits right on his shoulder and approaches the beak on the side of the ear, as if he was talking to him about something. There is much astonishment about that and suddenly the dove rises and stands up there the celebration continues, all that ends the celebration And now is Sister Magdalene of the Cross. Because of what he did when he was younger and because of his name Magdalene, Sister Magdalene of the Cross, the doors open, he goes out and at that moment the dove goes out and rises quickly. You don' t fly around, some bell tower rises until you lose sight of the sky. Of course from that, donations and gifts begin to grow in a way that has never been seen before. And this woman, in addition, also begins to acquire fame within the convent itself. And it' s one of those people who' s making some kind of sacrifice all the time. He' s stopped eating completely. Yes, there is

25:33 a permanent one and when you say fast it is that you do not taste anything, not even some moronas of bread, nothing, if only a little water. The only thing that keeps her alive and standing is Communion itself, the consecrated host. But that too has become very rare. She knows because suddenly, when Magdalene arrives to take Communion, it turns out that when the priest is going to reach out to give her Communion, it turns out that she already has it in her mouth, which was strange and magical practically. But in addition, these other things are also happening when suddenly, on the way to the chapel, she suffers an ecstasy if she falls to the floor, and then everyone takes her there, all the women, all the nuns, take her to her bed. They accommodate her very well and all that does not stop surprising people, because at the same time she makes prophecies that are fulfilled suddenly announces that Fulano of such will die of the high nobility and yes that does happen. And Perengano is going to come from that side and yes, that does happen. And every time she says something right to the point where shortly afterwards, when there has been a change of monarchy, the queen and her husband go to visit her there to the convent of Cordoba, in Andalusia. One good afternoon the streets of the guards begin to close, music all the scandal and is that comes Queen Elizabeth, accompanied by the king, who come with the basket of the child to bless her. They'

27:04 re waiting for a baby, but they come with the basket to bless her? Some say that such was the emotion of having known her and such the impact of feeling this person that the king asked her, if possible, one of her habits to wrap the newborn and breathe the perfume of holiness. And yes, it is said that yes, yes, he gave them one of his habits and that' s how they wrapped the newborn. The future king of Spain was involved in the habit of a Clare nun from Cordoba. But this, of course, awakened two positions. Again there were those who considered all this to be very rare, but they could not deny that things were happening, because when this woman said it would happen, it would happen and when someone would be well and ask that, please, they make prayers for Juanito or stone, this woman claimed to have contact with this person and bring news that they were real, that they were not just fantasies of her.

28:15 Of course we can' t rule out that there was some mechanism out there that knowing how to find out, it' s hard to know. But that is not the end of this issue, because one good day suddenly and without anyone realizing, in 1, 500 eighteen, Magdalena de la Cruz announces that she is expecting a son. That' s a scandal, a scandal, a closing nun is waiting for a son. How can that be possible? But she claims that no, that it is not such, that it is nothing unusual, that it is a miracle, that on a visit Jesus Christ has told her and that it is a miracle. You might think right now that it' s one of these imaginary pregnancies. She says no, Of course the abbess gets caught immediately what a disparagement, but at the same time that the abbess takes hold of the emotion that how it is possible for a pregnant woman in my convent, not because there has been no man involved.

29:19 She claims there' s been no man involved. And this generates a light of curious people who want to see her, who want to talk to her and, of course, questions raised eyebrows, but you know what. The cardinal himself sends three midwives, three midwives of great experience, to examine her. There are three people who have attended even in court and come to check it out. And the first thing they say is yes, he' s expecting a son. There' s a pregnancy here. And the second thing they confirm is this woman hasn' t met a man, which generates a new amount of money, because that does. People believed that this would win salvation and send a petition, a prayer, something and a sack of money. And that becomes crazy, because money is entering the convent until it becomes the richest convent in Spain, and it was a small convent in Cordoba.

30:18 It' s crazy because every day people come to ask for something, to leave something and she answers. But at the same time these strange things happen, such as, for example, at night, when everything is silent in your room you hear strange laments, laments and divers that none of the people who are there know what is being said. They don' t understand. You don' t understand what they' re saying. That' s weird talk. That pregnancy goes on and when the time comes to light the creature, this woman says no, she does not want help, asks to be taken to the small room that is at the bottom of the garden away and there she will give birth alone. No one should accompany her in such a way that the pain that that causes is the greatest possible for the relief of the sins of mankind. Of course many people are amazed like that holy that barbarity. The point is that a couple of days later he comes out of that little room, but he doesn' t bring any creatures, he doesn' t bring any babies. And when asked what happened, she relates that yes, that the baby was born and was a beautiful baby that radiated light to the point that the cold and dark room was filled with light until it became warm by that beautiful creature and that her hair became blonde white, completely growing to the point where she could wrap the creature with her own hair

31:48 even more assured that the creature, at a certain point had become light and had gone to heaven. That' s why I didn' t have it. As proof of this, he brought a series of pieces of blond hair that became relics. The nuns who were nearby asked him to have one or the other, and the agent of the nobility also asked for it, because there were those who believed it and there were those who were sure that this was a pseudo yess, a psychological pregnancy. But there was, too. Those who noticed a small detail when the midwives came again to check it, noticed that this woman had breastfed, had breastfed in some way, had been nursing a creature, but obviously, there had not been much time for her to do so. And yet when they reviewed it again, they were able to testify that this woman had not known a man and had not given light.

32:54 Of course that became a mystical birth and, being a birth itself, the degree of holiness of this woman continued to grow and then very crazy things passed, like that time when the doubts began. Well, it' s or it' s not holy. Or she is not holy, because these stitches suddenly give me the outburst and I hear noises or began rumors that secretly they were carrying her food, because how to explain to someone who has not eaten for twenty years and then the doubt arises, so the help of the Franciscan order, which sends a group of monks who are going to guard the door, the door of this woman' s room her cell, arises.

33:38 The cell had no exit to the outside because there was a series of bars, only a small door to the front and this woman slept on the floor, on a mat, not even in a bed, nor anything a mat. The guards show up and stay there alternating so they won' t sleep in the morning. When you open the door to boom it' s not gone when you start looking for it. They find it a little beyond the garden, in some small trees, some little eggs that were out there. There he is under a sleeping tree. He had left his room. She had passed through the front door, which was the back door, the door that she was sheltered in an old door with a padlock prevented her from going out, she had gone out, she had reached the orchard that also had to cross another barrier. It was impossible for a person, if he did not have permission to do so and the keys, to have come out and yet they went to find her there. This obviously caused even more trouble for the poor abbess who was there instigating because now this woman had demonstrated these amazing powers and so far you will wonder what I am telling you about the life of a saint I do not assure you that do not lose sight of the fact that during all this time this woman still had these visions, that of the young man and that of the knight that of dark complexion. There was

35:12 little talk of that and then the time came when the choice of the abbess would be made. It was a complex issue. The choice of an abbess depends on the order itself. It is the nuns themselves who choose the abbess and abbess that there was at that time Sister Elizabeth, if I am correct, was a woman who had some health problems already and so on, and when they propose that she be Magdalena, she rejects him immediately and says no. Me. No, I can' t be an abbess. I don ' t have that facility to be. I' m not the one who won' t do that to me to be an abbess. I' m the smallest of them all. Which, by the way, was not so true because for several years she had been a discreet nun, a nun with a black veil, discreet, that is, of the advisers of the Abbess.

36:04 I knew perfectly well how this moved. The discreet sisters were this group that accompanied the Abbess always. So I knew the business, I knew it, but I wanted to pass like the saint and I didn' t want to accept totally that you make the choice and win. And that changes dramatically, because suddenly the rules change and it becomes so weird that it would scratch almost in the perverse. Suddenly she makes one nun kneel and make the sign of the cross on the other' s shoes with her tongue. Suddenly she makes the sisters kneel and advance on some boards on which they had nailed, some nails, they had sanded the tip, but they were the tips of the nails and there they had to go on their knees. Or they had to make the tour from the area where the refectory was, the dining room to the chapel on their knees, Or they had to be applied if smooth, on the legs, on the waist, on the breasts. But also, obviously, they had to do it with the light, with the candles lit or during the day in the courtyard. In the eyes of everyone, and that was very critical, there were those who thought that it was rude to do that was GROSS sometimes put them to work on things that did not belong to them. We went on and on to ensure that she did not taste food except Communion. All this attracted the eyes of many people, of course, but on the one hand, there were the nobles who continued to

37:35 see her as a living saint and kept bringing money and gifts to the point that this convent had so much money that it paid for the construction of the cathedral. With the money that this holy nun in life had brought, the cathedral was paid for. But everything was very rare, because this person suddenly at night was locked up and there were noises and laments and they wanted it to be her punishments, but they were weird noises, if you understand what I mean by weird. Yet she was again elected some time later, when the new election won again. So, on the one hand, there was criticism and, on the other, not so much. Besides, he took some things away. Normally, the nuns' confession was made through a sort of closed thing with cloth. The priest couldn' t see the nun.

38:24 The nun could not see the priest' s confessions, but she demanded that this be removed and that the confessions be direct. But, in addition to that, she demanded that more be punished, that the nuns be punished further and confess and confess to her by then she decide the punishment. And that became crazy, because it seemed like a house of torment. This drew the attention of many and, of course, the attention of the Church itself. And that' s where very rare, good, rarer stories arise, like, for example, when one day she urgently asks for a tray of water, a mess with water to put her feet in, the sisters come running and put it on and she puts her feet in and she starts to come out with water, steam, as if they were hot fathoms, as if she had put the embers of the fire. So that begins to come out and confesses to them that he had just gone on a mystical journey, in an ecstasy, he had gone to heaven, to purgatory and hell and on returning from hell, well, he had hot feet. You or I would say crazy right now. And you, who are listening to me, surely think that all this doesn' t make sense, that even to talk about mystics you have to make some sense. And here it would seem that there was no such thing, because suddenly this woman says that San Francisco appeared to her and told her that she no longer has to confess, which the Church

39:54 does not like at all. And then she suddenly comes up with the idea that she is the one who has to confess to others and begins to ask that they confess with her, giving acquittal to the other nuns as if she were a priest, which puts the Church on the head. And it is when the new choice comes and it turns out that he no longer wins it, he wins the old abbey, which makes all this mystical air begin to fall and questions begin to arise. What really happened there, what was all this and she knows something the abbess wears rough, because before, when she went into ecstasy, they took her and laid her there in her room, there with her little blanket. But now you go into ecstasy and there where she gave you, there you stay and when you wake up or when you come back from your trip to see what you do and sometimes when the abbess is in a good mood, she asks her to pass tiled on the floor of the refectory, making the sign of the cross with her tongue. That ' s where all the nuns walk. There, of course, he doesn ' t eat anything in theory, so he doesn' t go to the refectory and there' s no food in his room. And that' s when research starts and there starts to be a weird feeling, a feeling that something wasn' t right. And this is where the ugly begins in the year of our lord of 1, 500 forty- three, Sister Magdalene of

41:27 the Cross, sick, sick of gravity. This is the situation that becomes evident that he will not survive, so it is asked that a priest enter to give confession there to his own cell, the nun is lying in his bed, but as soon as the priest places the stole to make the confession and approaches her. He begins to react in a violent way, to twist and do strange things to the point where that poor priest, when he is making the sign of the cross, has to turn back, because the woman is floating in the air and I am not inventing it and not the nun invented it, but the priest who was there and the witnesses who were around, the other nuns who were watching the scene horrified, ran all this.

42:08 Something was registered at the time It wasn' t right. And it is when that priest begins to realize that something in that woman was neither holy, nor pious, nor Jesus Christ, nor anything like it because this woman reacts as if she were attacked by demons and then the trials come. Magdalena twists at any religious sign. And yet, when one of these friars comes and shoves a huge needle into his foot, he barely moves Let' s go, he didn' t even notice. They pull out the needle and bleed profusely, insert it into another as if nothing, as if they were not even touching the sole of his foot. Pull out the needle and bleed again proof that there was something there, that there was a wound. But that monk suddenly and discreetly dips the needle in a little bit of holy water that he has right over there, sticks it to his foot, and then screams and voices and is horrified And, obviously, that makes them have to bring now a new priest who is an exorcist who begins to be an exorcism.

43:20 The Roman ritual was not yet established it is one thousand six hundred and fourteen, but there were his prayer books that they had and began to speak with it. And that' s when weird things start to come up. The moment the priest says in the name of Jesus Christ, I command you to leave this woman' s body there is an outburst of phenomena. As prayers and imprecations went by. Suddenly they could know that one of the demons that occupied that body was Balvan. Balvan was not the first time that that name was heard was already inscribed in the old books. He was a known man and the second demon to inhabit that body was Patorrio. That' s how he showed up, but there was more. This motivated a solemn exorcism.

44:07 The solemn exorcism was to find out what had happened there. And it was terrible, because during the interrogations of the solemn exorcism, this woman openly confessed that she knew that it was not Jesus Christ who was with her, that when she was a child, after what happened, when she crucified herself and fell And all this, when she made her healing, those two fingers that had become tiny and had never developed, were the mark. You remember that anyone who makes a pact is left with a mark, whether it is a sign on the face or on the body. In this case it was the fingers. She knew. As time passed he realized that that which was there was not a heavenly vision, far from it, but the demon itself that offered him great fame and prestige and all that he would have wished in exchange for his obedience, just as I tell him that handsome young man dressed in a single one. It wasn' t that. Then those other acts began.

45:15 After having participated in the ordination, he began to have sexual encounters with that demonic entity. In the evening, when the religious sisters listened to the laments in their room, they were not like thaws that they were beating or something, but because of the endless meetings they had with the devil and encounters of an erotic character. The creature he had carried within was not a creature taken away from the most high, but from the devil and had become smoke and had gone down. All this she revealed herself. She accepted that the covenant had been a deception to her and that, as a child, she had not realized what she was getting into, but that later, when she was a fully conscious adult, she realized what was happening, accepted it, accepted it. He wanted to move on, because on that basis he could know those secrets, how he could know things about the future that the demons themselves were telling him to come and it was no longer only with the appearance of the young Man of Morena complexion, who was a young and beautiful man, as she said, but had already become the demon itself, with a hellish face, a toothed mouth, horns, etc, who arrived and attacked her in a way that he had never imagined and did things and so on.

46:40 That' s what nuns heard. But there was no such fast. There wasn' t. The devil gave him food. The devil had brought him the consecrated hosts. Well, in this case they were freaks that she placed in her mouth to pretend she was a mystical communion during the rituals of exorcism that were going on day after day. That was manifesting itself with another heap of phenomena, from avoidance, tongues, super strength, all that, sansonism, cenoology. Let' s go with the classic signs of demon possession.

47:22 The problem is that this was the Holy Woman, who had brought wealth, this convent, who had built the cathedral, who had made and disposed of it around here, who had received the queen and whose habit had enveloped the future king what are you doing with this? You may think right now that much of what was said was false, that it was accusations of envy. And yes, to a large extent it may have been that when the new abbess takes office, her immediate action is revenge against Magdalena de la Cruz. But on the other hand, she recognized him. It was not a confession under torture, it was a confession during an exorcism and it was not the idea to mistreat her in any of this. She freely confessed and confessed for a simple reason. When she became aware of what was happening that demonic presence, she confessed that it would only be forty years, because, according to the belief of the time, the divine works are perpetual, but the works of the devil have a time and past that time are finished and thanks to the completion of that, she was able to confess what she had lived and could speak of the same thing and that was taken into account by the inquisition itself, which had already taken over this. After the exorcism, she was handed over to the inquisition to review the case. And this is how

48:53 more research begins and knowledge is taken of those portents, of those phenomena that had occurred in childhood and is being taken note of all of this. Questions are asked that she answers clearly, accepting her guilt and asking to be sent to the bonfire, which is denied. He is denied because being sent to the bonfire would be a sign of holiness that he did not deserve to die at the bonfire. It would have been a quick atonement he didn' t deserve. They didn' t kill her. He was found guilty for confession and accumulated evidence. This meant that he would be brought to punishment. And yes, the punishment was basically to take her to the public square without her head covered, wearing a rope around her neck, carrying a series of things that were offensive, a candle and standing there before the eyes of all people as long as a long mass lasted. After that, she was sent to another convent where she was ordered to be the last in everything and did it in a cloistered convent where she would not talk to anyone again and there she was sent and assumed the position of being the last in anything that was going to be done. That would be the last one. If there was a task to do, it would be she who did the worst task, the most detestable, and did it until the day of her death. He died

50:24 in 1, 500 sixty. If I' m right, he must have had a seventy- three- year- old ossam when he died. During all that time there was no complaint ever again near her. However, it happened to history as the Devil’ s Nun or the Devil’ s Saint, and some of the things that happened there. Throughout these confessions and interrogations they became a constant within the paranormal and demonic casuistics of the time that were recorded. In many cases these phenomena were repeated, for example, the marking of the fingers, the deception, the teaching to deceive why he had done good, it was very simple, She was a very humble woman who wanted to have fame, who wanted to have all that and accepted the deal.

51:16 I knew who you were talking to, what you' d think about it. And let me tell you that a lot of this is preserved. Much of this that I have told you is still at least two copies of the original file of the inquisition, a legaho that is four hundred and bill of years old where all these things that I have told you were written down. She confessed so that everything was being taken note and recorded on a sheet that was left for posterity. Of course what she was saying was this. I don' t know if it would be true. You have the best opinion, very good night and rest in peace or n o r