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

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On the third day of May of
1, 500 forty- six in Spain,

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in Cordoba, province of Andalusia,
a trial was held, an inquisitorial

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trial, that is, of the
Spanish inquisition. The trial as such was

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led neither more nor less by Cardinal
Jiménez, who was one of the most

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prominent figures, not only of the
Inquisition, but in general, of the

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Spanish Catholic Church. It was a
strange trial, a trial that at the

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same time had put people in favor
of the inquisition and people severely against it.

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And that' s because the person
who was going to be prosecuted was

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an old woman. We' re
going for sixty- one years, a

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woman. But what was even more
worrying to the Church herself is that this

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woman was nothing but a nun and
nun who had been considered a saint in

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life. And, in addition to
being considered holy in life, he had

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been recognized as a person of great
piety and special endowments, to the point

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where the nobility itself, including the
King and Queen of Spain, had come

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to ask for prayers from this person
who was now to be tried. But

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worst of all, the motive for
the prosecution was a pact with the devil.

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As I am telling you, covenant
with the devil, and not only

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was it a classic question of the
inquisition of applying torments to you and you

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confess. Not in this case had
confession come before, since a thousand nine

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hundred forty- four, two years
ago, this woman, after an exorcism,

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had confessed incredible things. Companion.
We begin accounts of the dark side,

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beings, strangers, unexplainable events,
divers stories that other minds prefer to

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ignore. It all begins in one
thousand four hundred and eighty- seven,

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an extraordinarily poor artisan family lives in
Cordoba, in the province of Andalusia,

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at a time when it was still
Moorish territory, Arab territory where wars had

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come after wars, destruction. She
was one of the many daughters in the

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family. They were large families.
When she was born she was called Magdalene,

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in attention to Mary Magdalene, who
was somehow a special woman in the

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Bible text and who also represented the
person who repented. But the parents didn

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' t think much about it.
They just liked the name and so they

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put it. They were so anonymous
people that even the parents' names didn

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' t go down in history.
That gives you an idea of the kind

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of people who were so humble,
so poor. The fact is that this

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creature begins very soon to develop strangers, habits, very soon at two or

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three years. He speaks perfectly and
has learned to pray and has learned to

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pray. Let' s put it
that way. She is a little girl,

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and yet she shows these strange signs
that are seen by the parents with

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intrigue and a certain distrust, such
a little creature that starts with religious issues

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and starts that she wants to go
to church and all this and gets more

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and more complicated in one day of
a procession something very strange happens. He

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goes through the procession with his censers, with the bells, with the most

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holy sacrament opposite, there they show
him. People come back and this is

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a little girl. At that time, I' d be about four years

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old and maybe five years old.
People are passing in front of the house

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of these potters, these artisans.
And the little one can' t see

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through the window. He can'
t see through the window. He fervently

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desires that he may reach out to
see it, but he cannot. And

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then he knows what happens before the
astonishment of many of those people, the

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wall opens to let the little girl
see to pass the sacrament and, of

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course, that generates an avalanche of
words of astonishment and surprise and so on,

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to the point that the priest has
to ask attention and continue in this.

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But he himself would be marked by
that strange vision where the wall opens

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and there is a little girl watching
them pass that follows. I would like

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to make it clear to you that
much of what I am going to tell

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you can be called into question or
may have an explanation. I' m

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not securing anything, just telling the
story. The fact is that that little

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muffin girl is still very fervent and
when she is five years old, she

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is such a fervor that she barely
ends up with a little thing that she

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has been commissioned and runs out to
get into the Church and be there praying.

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It' s a very rare thing. People have noticed this and come

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to their attention. But that is
where the strangest story begins, because in

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one of those moments when the Church
arrives to pray, she suffers an ecstasy,

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a mystical ecstasy is absent. But
at the same time, she inside

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and strangely, is aware of everything, and that is when she is visited

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by an image she interprets as Jesus
Christ himself, a man who emits lights

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with a black hair, young of
great beauty, who approaches her and speaks

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to her and well, well,
well, that mystical appearance would mean a

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lot to her. He was barely
five years old at such a point that,

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at the end of that ecstasy,
far from going home, he decided

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to escape and run to a cave, a cave that was somewhere over there

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and get in there to stay in
prayer and carry on with these ecstasy.

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Of course, he is absent in
a very short time. She might have

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fallen asleep, like knowing she was
a five- year- old girl.

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But, anyway, the weirdest part
is that she doesn' t remember the

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way she came home, when the
parents are frantically looking for her and desperately

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because they' ve been lost.
The last thing they knew was that he

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had gone to church. When they
find her, she is in her bed,

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lying quietly, when the father and
mother wake her up to ask what

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happened that where she was. He
tells them that extraordinary story of having gone

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to the cave and suddenly meeting in
his room, being taken by his guardian

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angel. Although there are those who
claimed that San Francisco himself came and brought

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all this was a very strange situation, but at the same time and if

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you are careful, they could be
simple coincidences suggestions. The little girl might

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well have peeked out of one of
the cracks, from the wall of the

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house. Do not forget that these
were territories that had been hit hard by

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the war and many of these houses
had holes in the walls and similar things.

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So it might well have been that
and no one had noticed. The

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little girl could have hidden herself in
the cave because of some kind of childhood

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dream or childish illusion of becoming a
saint like all those saints who talked to

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them, because even when she was
little and even when the Mass was in

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Latin, the fact is that there
were also sermons that were made in Spanish,

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in Spanish and, therefore, she
could have heard at some point stories

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of these saints who went through hardships, tremendous and sacrifices, and she was

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looking for that very well. So
far everything goes very well and life goes

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on. But it has become famous, knows Magdalenita, this little girl.

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It has become a barbarous fame that
this light has this gift, because when

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it goes the church was completely ecstatic
to hear the divine word and while it

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is there, it is seen with
the little eyes absent and it is so

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strange everything and when it speaks,
it speaks it with so much wisdom.

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And she' s a little girl
who' s in prayer all the time.

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Come on, people start to believe
that this girl has something, something

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mystical, something holy and, of
course, there are those who come up

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to ask the baby to pray for
her son or her husband, for all

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this and in the local world she
is making a fame, a little fame,

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things that go around here and things
that go there. And suddenly someone

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comes in and asks for a favor
and someone brings a little present for the

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girl and all this goes down and
that' s how time goes on.

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And suddenly when we realize, Magdalenita
is no longer six years old or seven,

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now she is ten and she is
a little girl who, as we

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were told, was very pretty,
but she is still the same, the

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same more religiosity, the same dedication
to mystical questions and to prayers and all

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that. And when the time comes
for the first Communion, tremendous, the

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child stops eating completely for three months. There is one total in preparation for

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receiving the consecrated host and so it
does even though the mother begs, the

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father begs, does not approve of
a bite, but that is not all.

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Besides that, little Magdalene, now
about ten years old, is still

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in these rolls. That I go
to church and I pray all day long.

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The mother is desperate, but she
cannot shout at her, because people

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also come to look for her when
the day of the first Communion arrives.

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That is a very rare thing,
because when she arrives at the Church to

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present herself to the priest and gives
the girl the host she suffers a mystical

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outburst and falls to the ecstatic floor
and when she reacts, it turns out

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that she has the host in her
mouth. I mean the consecrated host.

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He' s got it in his
mouth, but the priest hasn' t

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given it to him. He didn' t put the bread there He didn

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' t get it mystically. It
is a mystical communion, of course,

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that that awakens to amazement And ah
of course everyone sees that with very big

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eyes. The priest himself is as
impressed and the people have a special treatment

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as Santa. But she knows what. She does not feel holy, she

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does not feel holy, she feels
that she does not deserve that, that

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she deserves a punishment for the sins
of humanity to achieve forgiveness. Only God

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knows what' s right in his
head. The fact is that coming to

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Casa Harta they consider that she is
Santa and all this and that she feels

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that she is not and that one
must seek forgiveness from others and piety.

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And besides, she looks pretty and
thinks she' s pretty and the first

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thing she says is I can'
t be pretty. I can' t

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be this. This is vanity is
sin and come take some nails, a

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hammer and try to crucify. I
don' t know how he did it,

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but he puts a nail in his
hand and a big one on his

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feet. The point is that,
obviously, you cannot crucify yourself. But

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that has caused him such pain and
such bleeding that he ends up fainting when

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he loses consciousness. He begins to
hang up to the point where the wound

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itself opens and ends by breaking the
tissues, by breaking the tissues and comes

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falls as he has tried to lift
a bit using a bench, ends up

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front, is unconscious and when he
falls to the floor, is hit with

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something, fractures the ribs, is
hurt horribly when they find him good.

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That' s a tragedy. She' s bathed in blood. The doctor

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' s coming to clean the wounds. Of course, remove those nails,

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all that barbarity and lie down.
They sell the wounds, put some ointment

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on it, something I don'
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then. The fact is, she' s asleep in her bed. When

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suddenly, well, she reacts awake, she is seen to be healed and

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the first thing she does is tear
off her bandages to cause further bleeding and

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those of her feet as well.
And, well, the doctor has to

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come back and do the same,
but he knows what he does sneaking around

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again. As soon as no one
sees it, the bandages are removed and,

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of course, the sanitary conditions in
a poor house of this Renaissance era,

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in a town like Córdoba, were
not very good. So very soon

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he starts having an infection. The
fever, the two blows he received on

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his side and chest cause another infection. He starts recording, he starts going

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to the point where the doctor comes
and tells him they' re dying and

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I can' t do anything.
But she has there a mystical communion,

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something very rare, because in the
midst of that, of those delusions and

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of those fevers, she again has
the visit of that Jesus who has seen

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of that being of great beauty,
who approaches her and tells her not to

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worry, that it will be very
well, taking her hands holding her tightly

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and lifting her up and then she
is healed. The problem is that from

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that, in that way in which
he has held his small fingers, the

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pinky fingers would not grow any more. It is possible that it was from

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the wound, but it was only
wounded in one hand, the other not,

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and yet both fingers remained in a
ridiculously small way. People, of

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course, felt that it was because
he had touched her there, that Christ

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had held her hand and that it
was also part of the miracle. And

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this kept growing because in addition,
this girl was pointed out as knowing what

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people were saying to what people thought
without much, at least that' s

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what they were saying. We have
no way of knowing. Actually. This

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happened four hundred and eighty years ago
and there are not many written testimonies or

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anything. Therefore, the only thing
left is what was discussed later in that

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trial, which I have told you
there, what has been said there is

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the strong testimony that there is and
a couple of stories out there printed from

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the point period. The point is
that this girl goes forward and continues with

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the idea of going to the convent, of becoming a nun, of giving

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herself completely to the divinity, to
Christ, as you want to call her,

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she has that idea. The option
she has left, being a daughter

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of such a poor family, is
to become a clairvoyant dependent on the nuns

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of the Franciscans. In that case, the Clares did not ask for a

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dowry, but they entered certain conditions, which practically went into domestic work,

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but from there they could go on
to become nuns. In other associations.

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Obviously, it was difficult, because
it required paying a dowry, giving money

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in exchange for letting him in.
This girl does it, but don'

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t lose sight that in these dreams
she has had these images that go to

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her, that come to her and
tell her things and that ask her to

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do certain things. Not only is
the image of the Christ that radiant of

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the black hair, sometimes also accompanied
by this other man of color, a

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man of color the dark skin that
accompanies him. I remember an episode of

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something we were talking about a little
African- descendant boy and it has a

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lot to do with it. The
point is, she' s still committed

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to entering the convent, and that
wasn' t so hard for her.

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He knows for two main reasons.
The first, because they were the clairvoyances

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that allowed that. And the second, because they were very famous, was

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almost considered as the Saint of Cologne, for her gifts of wisdom, of

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prayer, of giving of mercy,
of sacrifices, because this little girl,

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even though she was at home,
still used to be fasting, used to

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be self- punished in the ways
within her reach. And all this had

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brought Santa' s fame to him. So when the convent finds out who

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it is and all that accepts it
and lets it in as Novice, it

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is very young. At that time, when he entered as Novicia, very

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young, the entrance to the convent
would be in 1, 500 four of

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seventeen years old and went to the
convent of Santa Isabel de los Angeles in

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Cordoba. Precisely that convent that we
have behind us and since it has arrived

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has begun to do things that were
unusual. He was barely seventeen years old,

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yet he spoke of mercy and fulfilled
it, died, reported openly,

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but also did things that others would
not do. For example, he was

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carrying a cross all over the courtyard
of the convent, which was not very

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well seen. And yet, all
of a sudden, he did the tasks

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that no one wanted to do,
the dirty things, the things that were

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considered inappropriate or denigrating. She made
them and sometimes knelt and kissed the feet

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of others and then put cilia and
lilies on her legs. To hurt himself,

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he slammed his back. It was
something I' d done before.

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It was well known that when he
was about sixteen years old, he used

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to hurt his back by slamming himself
that disappeared the next day. I insist

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I can' t be sure it
was true. I' m just telling

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a story. But here comes the
weird part of all this. While,

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on the one hand, she seemed
so perfect, so pure, so pious

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for all these things, on the
other hand, it was shocking that she

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made it public. It was strange
to see her flogging in front of her

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partners. That wasn' t done. If someone was going to apply a

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punishment for some petty thing he had, he would do it in private,

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but she made it public. In
addition, he did things as strange as

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taking off his shoes, watering broken
glass and walking on glass internally. She

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has continued to have the visions,
the visions of this character that assures her

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that everything will be fine as long
as she does what this person says or

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this being that appears to her and
she does. And that' s how

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unusual things start to happen. Suddenly
this girl starts praying and turns around and

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tells someone today she' s going
to die. Suddenly, when someone comes

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to visit the convent, she comments
without knowing who is there, because she

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remembers that these convents were completely closed. So the visit was over there and

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there was a caring nun who was
watching over what was being talked about on

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the lathe or where these species of
locutories were. There was a nun who

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looked after, there was the doorman, and there was the guard who watched

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that nothing inappropriate was said. So
she didn' t have to approach and

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yet she knew who was and could
say things about those people. And this

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was again creating this halo of mystery, this aura of grandiosity, to the

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point that it became famous, very
famous. People began to approach to ask

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if they could talk to the saints, if they could ask the saint a

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favor. But now it was no
longer in the Community, in its place

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where it was born. Now they
were people of the great city, some

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of them of great economic capacity,
who came to leave money for the Holy

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One to pray for them or come
to ask them things. And this was

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becoming more and more and more,
because everyone knew that this pious saint had

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contact with the souls of purgatory,
as I tell her. It was rumored

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that she could speak to the people
who were in purgatory, the blessed souls

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of purgatory, those who have died
and who have not migrated to heaven,

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but are not guilty enough to go
to hell. It is this intermediate point

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of Catholic eschatology. It is a
place where those sinful souls are theoretically,

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but not so sinful. And the
fact is that she could talk to them,

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help them, and then people came
back and asked to know from their

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family member X that he had died, from a stone, from Juanito,

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whomever he was from, and she
told them that she would look for them

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and help them and then come with
news. But they were strange things.

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And not only do I mean that
they turned out strange, because in itself

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saying that you talk to the dead
in purgatory is strange, but saying that

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they talked to the stone that had
died six months ago and sent specific errands,

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with key news, let' s
go, it revealed things that had

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no way of knowing through natural ways. And that became even stronger because,

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moreover, she was aware of everything
that was going on in the city and

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yet she didn' t come out
at all and she didn' t talk

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to people directly, so she didn' t have a way of contact to

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get informed and was more informed than
the bishop himself, but it wasn'

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t about what the others told her. Not in fact, she was a

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very silent sister, she did not
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in her prayers. With these weird
things and the day comes when he

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' s going to take the vows. The profession is such the fame of

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this little woman that she will first
officially order herself to wear the veil properly

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at barely twenty- two years of
age, which was very unusual. But

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not only that she' s going
to order herself. There' s not

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gonna be another group of girls there
to take the vows. This is important.

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Normally, when it came to novices
who were already going to make the

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vows, ten or twelve girls gathered
together to make a celebration and all that

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she did not, she entered the
church alone and to finish demolishing the thing,

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the one who would serve the Mass
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cardinal. That was something out of
context. Such was the fame that the

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cardinal himself at the time when he
is about to make the prayer and address

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a few words to him, does
not address a few words like to anyone

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who is given to you to be
correct, to lead a life of fullness.

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I bless you. No. No. No. No. No.

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What the Cardinal does is ask for
his help. That awakens a lot of

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whispers and signs of amazement, because
the Cardinal himself is asking him to pray

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for him and for the Church.
But worse still comes a time when something

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happens that is very rare and everyone
confessed to having seen it, and it

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is that, when they begin to
sing the Kiriy the Aison, suddenly a

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white dove appears inside the Church that
sits right on his shoulder and approaches the

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beak on the side of the ear, as if he was talking to him

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about something. There is much astonishment
about that and suddenly the dove rises and

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stands up there the celebration continues,
all that ends the celebration And now is

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Sister Magdalene of the Cross. Because
of what he did when he was younger

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and because of his name Magdalene,
Sister Magdalene of the Cross, the doors

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open, he goes out and at
that moment the dove goes out and rises

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quickly. You don' t fly
around, some bell tower rises until you

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lose sight of the sky. Of
course from that, donations and gifts begin

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to grow in a way that has
never been seen before. And this woman,

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in addition, also begins to acquire
fame within the convent itself. And

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it' s one of those people
who' s making some kind of sacrifice

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all the time. He' s
stopped eating completely. Yes, there is

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a permanent one and when you say
fast it is that you do not taste

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anything, not even some moronas of
bread, nothing, if only a little

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water. The only thing that keeps
her alive and standing is Communion itself,

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the consecrated host. But that too
has become very rare. She knows because

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suddenly, when Magdalene arrives to take
Communion, it turns out that when the

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priest is going to reach out to
give her Communion, it turns out that

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she already has it in her mouth, which was strange and magical practically.

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But in addition, these other things
are also happening when suddenly, on the

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way to the chapel, she suffers
an ecstasy if she falls to the floor,

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and then everyone takes her there,
all the women, all the nuns,

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take her to her bed. They
accommodate her very well and all that

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does not stop surprising people, because
at the same time she makes prophecies that

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are fulfilled suddenly announces that Fulano of
such will die of the high nobility and

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yes that does happen. And Perengano
is going to come from that side and

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yes, that does happen. And
every time she says something right to the

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point where shortly afterwards, when there
has been a change of monarchy, the

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queen and her husband go to visit
her there to the convent of Cordoba,

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in Andalusia. One good afternoon the
streets of the guards begin to close,

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music all the scandal and is that
comes Queen Elizabeth, accompanied by the king,

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who come with the basket of the
child to bless her. They'

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re waiting for a baby, but
they come with the basket to bless her?

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Some say that such was the emotion
of having known her and such the

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impact of feeling this person that the
king asked her, if possible, one

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of her habits to wrap the newborn
and breathe the perfume of holiness. And

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yes, it is said that yes, yes, he gave them one of

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his habits and that' s how
they wrapped the newborn. The future king

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of Spain was involved in the habit
of a Clare nun from Cordoba. But

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this, of course, awakened two
positions. Again there were those who considered

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all this to be very rare,
but they could not deny that things were

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happening, because when this woman said
it would happen, it would happen and

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when someone would be well and ask
that, please, they make prayers for

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Juanito or stone, this woman claimed
to have contact with this person and bring

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news that they were real, that
they were not just fantasies of her.

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Of course we can' t rule
out that there was some mechanism out there

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that knowing how to find out,
it' s hard to know. But

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that is not the end of this
issue, because one good day suddenly and

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without anyone realizing, in 1,
500 eighteen, Magdalena de la Cruz announces

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that she is expecting a son.
That' s a scandal, a scandal,

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a closing nun is waiting for a
son. How can that be possible?

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But she claims that no, that
it is not such, that it

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is nothing unusual, that it is
a miracle, that on a visit Jesus

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Christ has told her and that it
is a miracle. You might think right

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now that it' s one of
these imaginary pregnancies. She says no,

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Of course the abbess gets caught immediately
what a disparagement, but at the same

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time that the abbess takes hold of
the emotion that how it is possible for

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a pregnant woman in my convent,
not because there has been no man involved.

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She claims there' s been no
man involved. And this generates a

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light of curious people who want to
see her, who want to talk to

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her and, of course, questions
raised eyebrows, but you know what.

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The cardinal himself sends three midwives,
three midwives of great experience, to examine

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her. There are three people who
have attended even in court and come to

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check it out. And the first
thing they say is yes, he'

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s expecting a son. There'
s a pregnancy here. And the second

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thing they confirm is this woman hasn' t met a man, which generates

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a new amount of money, because
that does. People believed that this would

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win salvation and send a petition,
a prayer, something and a sack of

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money. And that becomes crazy,
because money is entering the convent until it

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becomes the richest convent in Spain,
and it was a small convent in Cordoba.

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It' s crazy because every day
people come to ask for something,

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to leave something and she answers.
But at the same time these strange things

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happen, such as, for example, at night, when everything is silent

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in your room you hear strange laments, laments and divers that none of the

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people who are there know what is
being said. They don' t understand.

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You don' t understand what they' re saying. That' s

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weird talk. That pregnancy goes on
and when the time comes to light the

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creature, this woman says no,
she does not want help, asks to

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be taken to the small room that
is at the bottom of the garden away

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and there she will give birth alone. No one should accompany her in such

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a way that the pain that that
causes is the greatest possible for the relief

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of the sins of mankind. Of
course many people are amazed like that holy

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that barbarity. The point is that
a couple of days later he comes out

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of that little room, but he
doesn' t bring any creatures, he

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doesn' t bring any babies.
And when asked what happened, she relates

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that yes, that the baby was
born and was a beautiful baby that radiated

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light to the point that the cold
and dark room was filled with light until

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it became warm by that beautiful creature
and that her hair became blonde white,

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completely growing to the point where she
could wrap the creature with her own hair

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even more assured that the creature,
at a certain point had become light and

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had gone to heaven. That'
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As proof of this, he brought
a series of pieces of blond hair

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that became relics. The nuns who
were nearby asked him to have one or

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the other, and the agent of
the nobility also asked for it, because

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there were those who believed it and
there were those who were sure that this

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was a pseudo yess, a psychological
pregnancy. But there was, too.

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Those who noticed a small detail when
the midwives came again to check it,

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noticed that this woman had breastfed,
had breastfed in some way, had been

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nursing a creature, but obviously,
there had not been much time for her

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to do so. And yet when
they reviewed it again, they were able

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to testify that this woman had not
known a man and had not given light.

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Of course that became a mystical birth
and, being a birth itself,

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the degree of holiness of this woman
continued to grow and then very crazy things

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passed, like that time when the
doubts began. Well, it' s

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or it' s not holy.
Or she is not holy, because these

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stitches suddenly give me the outburst and
I hear noises or began rumors that secretly

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they were carrying her food, because
how to explain to someone who has not

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eaten for twenty years and then the
doubt arises, so the help of the

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Franciscan order, which sends a group
of monks who are going to guard the

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door, the door of this woman' s room her cell, arises.

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The cell had no exit to the
outside because there was a series of bars,

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only a small door to the front
and this woman slept on the floor,

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on a mat, not even in
a bed, nor anything a mat.

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The guards show up and stay there
alternating so they won' t sleep

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in the morning. When you open
the door to boom it' s not

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gone when you start looking for it. They find it a little beyond the

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garden, in some small trees,
some little eggs that were out there.

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There he is under a sleeping tree. He had left his room. She

411
00:34:17.280 --> 00:34:22.039
had passed through the front door,
which was the back door, the door

412
00:34:22.079 --> 00:34:25.480
that she was sheltered in an old
door with a padlock prevented her from going

413
00:34:27.039 --> 00:34:30.960
out, she had gone out,
she had reached the orchard that also had

414
00:34:30.960 --> 00:34:35.280
to cross another barrier. It was
impossible for a person, if he did

415
00:34:35.360 --> 00:34:37.400
not have permission to do so and
the keys, to have come out and

416
00:34:37.400 --> 00:34:45.400
yet they went to find her there. This obviously caused even more trouble for

417
00:34:45.400 --> 00:34:49.760
the poor abbess who was there instigating
because now this woman had demonstrated these amazing

418
00:34:49.800 --> 00:34:57.519
powers and so far you will wonder
what I am telling you about the life

419
00:34:57.599 --> 00:35:01.880
of a saint I do not assure
you that do not lose sight of the

420
00:35:02.360 --> 00:35:07.719
fact that during all this time this
woman still had these visions, that of

421
00:35:07.800 --> 00:35:12.639
the young man and that of the
knight that of dark complexion. There was

422
00:35:12.760 --> 00:35:17.679
little talk of that and then the
time came when the choice of the abbess

423
00:35:17.719 --> 00:35:23.480
would be made. It was a
complex issue. The choice of an abbess

424
00:35:24.199 --> 00:35:28.639
depends on the order itself. It
is the nuns themselves who choose the abbess

425
00:35:28.679 --> 00:35:32.800
and abbess that there was at that
time Sister Elizabeth, if I am correct,

426
00:35:32.920 --> 00:35:37.920
was a woman who had some health
problems already and so on, and

427
00:35:37.960 --> 00:35:43.400
when they propose that she be Magdalena, she rejects him immediately and says no.

428
00:35:44.000 --> 00:35:45.639
Me. No, I can'
t be an abbess. I don

429
00:35:45.760 --> 00:35:50.800
' t have that facility to be. I' m not the one who

430
00:35:50.960 --> 00:35:52.880
won' t do that to me
to be an abbess. I' m

431
00:35:52.000 --> 00:35:54.639
the smallest of them all. Which, by the way, was not so

432
00:35:54.719 --> 00:36:00.320
true because for several years she had
been a discreet nun, a nun with

433
00:36:00.559 --> 00:36:04.079
a black veil, discreet, that
is, of the advisers of the Abbess.

434
00:36:04.239 --> 00:36:07.639
I knew perfectly well how this moved. The discreet sisters were this group

435
00:36:07.639 --> 00:36:12.239
that accompanied the Abbess always. So
I knew the business, I knew it,

436
00:36:12.360 --> 00:36:15.960
but I wanted to pass like the
saint and I didn' t want

437
00:36:16.039 --> 00:36:22.400
to accept totally that you make the
choice and win. And that changes dramatically,

438
00:36:22.480 --> 00:36:29.000
because suddenly the rules change and it
becomes so weird that it would scratch

439
00:36:29.119 --> 00:36:34.920
almost in the perverse. Suddenly she
makes one nun kneel and make the sign

440
00:36:35.000 --> 00:36:38.119
of the cross on the other'
s shoes with her tongue. Suddenly she

441
00:36:38.199 --> 00:36:44.519
makes the sisters kneel and advance on
some boards on which they had nailed,

442
00:36:44.840 --> 00:36:47.840
some nails, they had sanded the
tip, but they were the tips of

443
00:36:47.840 --> 00:36:51.920
the nails and there they had to
go on their knees. Or they had

444
00:36:51.960 --> 00:36:55.519
to make the tour from the area
where the refectory was, the dining room

445
00:36:55.559 --> 00:37:00.960
to the chapel on their knees,
Or they had to be applied if smooth,

446
00:37:00.559 --> 00:37:04.199
on the legs, on the waist, on the breasts. But also,

447
00:37:04.280 --> 00:37:07.679
obviously, they had to do it
with the light, with the candles

448
00:37:07.760 --> 00:37:09.519
lit or during the day in the
courtyard. In the eyes of everyone,

449
00:37:09.559 --> 00:37:15.840
and that was very critical, there
were those who thought that it was rude

450
00:37:15.880 --> 00:37:19.960
to do that was GROSS sometimes put
them to work on things that did not

451
00:37:19.960 --> 00:37:25.559
belong to them. We went on
and on to ensure that she did not

452
00:37:25.599 --> 00:37:30.159
taste food except Communion. All this
attracted the eyes of many people, of

453
00:37:30.239 --> 00:37:35.840
course, but on the one hand, there were the nobles who continued to

454
00:37:35.920 --> 00:37:39.239
see her as a living saint and
kept bringing money and gifts to the point

455
00:37:39.360 --> 00:37:43.159
that this convent had so much money
that it paid for the construction of the

456
00:37:43.159 --> 00:37:46.440
cathedral. With the money that this
holy nun in life had brought, the

457
00:37:46.480 --> 00:37:51.000
cathedral was paid for. But everything
was very rare, because this person suddenly

458
00:37:51.079 --> 00:37:53.400
at night was locked up and there
were noises and laments and they wanted it

459
00:37:53.400 --> 00:37:58.519
to be her punishments, but they
were weird noises, if you understand what

460
00:37:58.519 --> 00:38:05.800
I mean by weird. Yet she
was again elected some time later, when

461
00:38:06.480 --> 00:38:09.639
the new election won again. So, on the one hand, there was

462
00:38:09.679 --> 00:38:12.960
criticism and, on the other,
not so much. Besides, he took

463
00:38:13.000 --> 00:38:17.440
some things away. Normally, the
nuns' confession was made through a sort

464
00:38:17.719 --> 00:38:23.719
of closed thing with cloth. The
priest couldn' t see the nun.

465
00:38:24.039 --> 00:38:29.199
The nun could not see the priest' s confessions, but she demanded that

466
00:38:29.239 --> 00:38:31.559
this be removed and that the confessions
be direct. But, in addition to

467
00:38:31.559 --> 00:38:37.719
that, she demanded that more be
punished, that the nuns be punished further

468
00:38:37.880 --> 00:38:42.559
and confess and confess to her by
then she decide the punishment. And that

469
00:38:42.639 --> 00:38:47.119
became crazy, because it seemed like
a house of torment. This drew the

470
00:38:47.119 --> 00:38:52.639
attention of many and, of course, the attention of the Church itself.

471
00:38:52.639 --> 00:38:57.840
And that' s where very rare, good, rarer stories arise, like,

472
00:38:58.000 --> 00:39:02.840
for example, when one day she
urgently asks for a tray of water,

473
00:39:04.360 --> 00:39:07.440
a mess with water to put her
feet in, the sisters come running

474
00:39:07.519 --> 00:39:12.920
and put it on and she puts
her feet in and she starts to come

475
00:39:12.960 --> 00:39:15.679
out with water, steam, as
if they were hot fathoms, as if

476
00:39:15.679 --> 00:39:17.760
she had put the embers of the
fire. So that begins to come out

477
00:39:17.840 --> 00:39:22.119
and confesses to them that he had
just gone on a mystical journey, in

478
00:39:22.440 --> 00:39:28.159
an ecstasy, he had gone to
heaven, to purgatory and hell and on

479
00:39:28.159 --> 00:39:30.920
returning from hell, well, he
had hot feet. You or I would

480
00:39:30.960 --> 00:39:37.199
say crazy right now. And you, who are listening to me, surely

481
00:39:37.320 --> 00:39:40.880
think that all this doesn' t
make sense, that even to talk about

482
00:39:42.000 --> 00:39:45.400
mystics you have to make some sense. And here it would seem that there

483
00:39:45.400 --> 00:39:50.639
was no such thing, because suddenly
this woman says that San Francisco appeared to

484
00:39:50.679 --> 00:39:54.079
her and told her that she no
longer has to confess, which the Church

485
00:39:54.159 --> 00:40:00.159
does not like at all. And
then she suddenly comes up with the idea

486
00:40:00.199 --> 00:40:04.000
that she is the one who has
to confess to others and begins to ask

487
00:40:04.039 --> 00:40:08.800
that they confess with her, giving
acquittal to the other nuns as if she

488
00:40:08.880 --> 00:40:14.079
were a priest, which puts the
Church on the head. And it is

489
00:40:14.199 --> 00:40:17.880
when the new choice comes and it
turns out that he no longer wins it,

490
00:40:19.960 --> 00:40:24.920
he wins the old abbey, which
makes all this mystical air begin to

491
00:40:24.960 --> 00:40:30.719
fall and questions begin to arise.
What really happened there, what was all

492
00:40:30.880 --> 00:40:36.639
this and she knows something the abbess
wears rough, because before, when she

493
00:40:36.679 --> 00:40:39.559
went into ecstasy, they took her
and laid her there in her room,

494
00:40:39.920 --> 00:40:43.800
there with her little blanket. But
now you go into ecstasy and there where

495
00:40:43.880 --> 00:40:46.960
she gave you, there you stay
and when you wake up or when you

496
00:40:47.000 --> 00:40:52.079
come back from your trip to see
what you do and sometimes when the abbess

497
00:40:52.159 --> 00:40:58.360
is in a good mood, she
asks her to pass tiled on the floor

498
00:40:58.400 --> 00:41:00.199
of the refectory, making the sign
of the cross with her tongue. That

499
00:41:00.320 --> 00:41:04.480
' s where all the nuns walk. There, of course, he doesn

500
00:41:05.480 --> 00:41:09.280
' t eat anything in theory,
so he doesn' t go to the

501
00:41:09.320 --> 00:41:13.119
refectory and there' s no food
in his room. And that' s

502
00:41:13.159 --> 00:41:16.760
when research starts and there starts to
be a weird feeling, a feeling that

503
00:41:16.960 --> 00:41:22.840
something wasn' t right. And
this is where the ugly begins in the

504
00:41:22.880 --> 00:41:27.039
year of our lord of 1,
500 forty- three, Sister Magdalene of

505
00:41:27.119 --> 00:41:31.559
the Cross, sick, sick of
gravity. This is the situation that becomes

506
00:41:31.599 --> 00:41:36.159
evident that he will not survive,
so it is asked that a priest enter

507
00:41:36.320 --> 00:41:40.880
to give confession there to his own
cell, the nun is lying in his

508
00:41:40.960 --> 00:41:45.760
bed, but as soon as the
priest places the stole to make the confession

509
00:41:45.760 --> 00:41:51.800
and approaches her. He begins to
react in a violent way, to twist

510
00:41:51.840 --> 00:41:53.719
and do strange things to the point
where that poor priest, when he is

511
00:41:53.800 --> 00:41:57.320
making the sign of the cross,
has to turn back, because the woman

512
00:41:57.320 --> 00:42:00.360
is floating in the air and I
am not inventing it and not the nun

513
00:42:00.800 --> 00:42:04.039
invented it, but the priest who
was there and the witnesses who were around,

514
00:42:04.599 --> 00:42:07.760
the other nuns who were watching the
scene horrified, ran all this.

515
00:42:08.719 --> 00:42:14.000
Something was registered at the time It
wasn' t right. And it is

516
00:42:14.039 --> 00:42:17.199
when that priest begins to realize that
something in that woman was neither holy,

517
00:42:17.320 --> 00:42:22.000
nor pious, nor Jesus Christ,
nor anything like it because this woman reacts

518
00:42:22.079 --> 00:42:32.400
as if she were attacked by demons
and then the trials come. Magdalena twists

519
00:42:32.440 --> 00:42:38.360
at any religious sign. And yet, when one of these friars comes and

520
00:42:38.480 --> 00:42:44.519
shoves a huge needle into his foot, he barely moves Let' s go,

521
00:42:44.719 --> 00:42:47.599
he didn' t even notice.
They pull out the needle and bleed

522
00:42:49.239 --> 00:42:52.159
profusely, insert it into another as
if nothing, as if they were not

523
00:42:52.199 --> 00:42:54.480
even touching the sole of his foot. Pull out the needle and bleed again

524
00:42:54.800 --> 00:43:00.599
proof that there was something there,
that there was a wound. But that

525
00:43:00.679 --> 00:43:07.000
monk suddenly and discreetly dips the needle
in a little bit of holy water that

526
00:43:07.079 --> 00:43:10.239
he has right over there, sticks
it to his foot, and then screams

527
00:43:10.320 --> 00:43:15.960
and voices and is horrified And,
obviously, that makes them have to bring

528
00:43:16.000 --> 00:43:19.800
now a new priest who is an
exorcist who begins to be an exorcism.

529
00:43:20.360 --> 00:43:23.719
The Roman ritual was not yet established
it is one thousand six hundred and fourteen,

530
00:43:23.920 --> 00:43:28.679
but there were his prayer books that
they had and began to speak with

531
00:43:28.679 --> 00:43:30.639
it. And that' s when
weird things start to come up. The

532
00:43:30.639 --> 00:43:34.840
moment the priest says in the name
of Jesus Christ, I command you to

533
00:43:34.920 --> 00:43:40.239
leave this woman' s body there
is an outburst of phenomena. As prayers

534
00:43:40.280 --> 00:43:45.199
and imprecations went by. Suddenly they
could know that one of the demons that

535
00:43:45.280 --> 00:43:51.800
occupied that body was Balvan. Balvan
was not the first time that that name

536
00:43:51.840 --> 00:43:57.280
was heard was already inscribed in the
old books. He was a known man

537
00:43:57.360 --> 00:44:01.920
and the second demon to inhabit that
body was Patorrio. That' s how

538
00:44:01.960 --> 00:44:05.719
he showed up, but there was
more. This motivated a solemn exorcism.

539
00:44:07.800 --> 00:44:12.159
The solemn exorcism was to find out
what had happened there. And it was

540
00:44:12.159 --> 00:44:19.599
terrible, because during the interrogations of
the solemn exorcism, this woman openly confessed

541
00:44:19.719 --> 00:44:22.360
that she knew that it was not
Jesus Christ who was with her, that

542
00:44:22.639 --> 00:44:29.320
when she was a child, after
what happened, when she crucified herself and

543
00:44:29.440 --> 00:44:34.159
fell And all this, when she
made her healing, those two fingers that

544
00:44:34.159 --> 00:44:37.519
had become tiny and had never developed, were the mark. You remember that

545
00:44:37.599 --> 00:44:43.199
anyone who makes a pact is left
with a mark, whether it is a

546
00:44:43.679 --> 00:44:47.079
sign on the face or on the
body. In this case it was the

547
00:44:47.079 --> 00:44:52.039
fingers. She knew. As time
passed he realized that that which was there

548
00:44:52.079 --> 00:44:57.000
was not a heavenly vision, far
from it, but the demon itself that

549
00:44:57.079 --> 00:45:01.159
offered him great fame and prestige and
all that he would have wished in exchange

550
00:45:01.199 --> 00:45:06.760
for his obedience, just as I
tell him that handsome young man dressed in

551
00:45:07.239 --> 00:45:15.320
a single one. It wasn'
t that. Then those other acts began.

552
00:45:15.719 --> 00:45:22.320
After having participated in the ordination,
he began to have sexual encounters with

553
00:45:22.440 --> 00:45:28.920
that demonic entity. In the evening, when the religious sisters listened to the

554
00:45:28.960 --> 00:45:32.199
laments in their room, they were
not like thaws that they were beating or

555
00:45:32.199 --> 00:45:38.360
something, but because of the endless
meetings they had with the devil and encounters

556
00:45:38.400 --> 00:45:44.800
of an erotic character. The creature
he had carried within was not a creature

557
00:45:44.920 --> 00:45:51.400
taken away from the most high,
but from the devil and had become smoke

558
00:45:51.480 --> 00:45:55.639
and had gone down. All this
she revealed herself. She accepted that the

559
00:45:55.719 --> 00:45:59.760
covenant had been a deception to her
and that, as a child, she

560
00:45:59.920 --> 00:46:02.519
had not realized what she was getting
into, but that later, when she

561
00:46:02.559 --> 00:46:07.199
was a fully conscious adult, she
realized what was happening, accepted it,

562
00:46:07.639 --> 00:46:15.039
accepted it. He wanted to move
on, because on that basis he could

563
00:46:15.199 --> 00:46:20.079
know those secrets, how he could
know things about the future that the demons

564
00:46:20.119 --> 00:46:25.239
themselves were telling him to come and
it was no longer only with the appearance

565
00:46:25.400 --> 00:46:30.320
of the young Man of Morena complexion, who was a young and beautiful man,

566
00:46:30.920 --> 00:46:32.960
as she said, but had already
become the demon itself, with a

567
00:46:32.960 --> 00:46:37.239
hellish face, a toothed mouth,
horns, etc, who arrived and attacked

568
00:46:37.320 --> 00:46:40.679
her in a way that he had
never imagined and did things and so on.

569
00:46:40.760 --> 00:46:45.519
That' s what nuns heard.
But there was no such fast.

570
00:46:46.280 --> 00:46:52.039
There wasn' t. The devil
gave him food. The devil had brought

571
00:46:52.119 --> 00:46:57.559
him the consecrated hosts. Well,
in this case they were freaks that she

572
00:46:57.599 --> 00:47:02.559
placed in her mouth to pretend she
was a mystical communion during the rituals of

573
00:47:02.599 --> 00:47:07.440
exorcism that were going on day after
day. That was manifesting itself with another

574
00:47:07.880 --> 00:47:13.360
heap of phenomena, from avoidance,
tongues, super strength, all that,

575
00:47:13.719 --> 00:47:20.760
sansonism, cenoology. Let' s
go with the classic signs of demon possession.

576
00:47:22.639 --> 00:47:25.280
The problem is that this was the
Holy Woman, who had brought wealth,

577
00:47:25.559 --> 00:47:30.320
this convent, who had built the
cathedral, who had made and disposed

578
00:47:30.320 --> 00:47:35.320
of it around here, who had
received the queen and whose habit had enveloped

579
00:47:35.360 --> 00:47:40.960
the future king what are you doing
with this? You may think right now

580
00:47:42.679 --> 00:47:45.599
that much of what was said was
false, that it was accusations of envy.

581
00:47:45.960 --> 00:47:50.440
And yes, to a large extent
it may have been that when the

582
00:47:50.639 --> 00:47:54.679
new abbess takes office, her immediate
action is revenge against Magdalena de la Cruz.

583
00:47:55.400 --> 00:47:59.800
But on the other hand, she
recognized him. It was not a

584
00:47:59.840 --> 00:48:05.480
confession under torture, it was a
confession during an exorcism and it was not

585
00:48:05.599 --> 00:48:12.280
the idea to mistreat her in any
of this. She freely confessed and confessed

586
00:48:12.320 --> 00:48:19.000
for a simple reason. When she
became aware of what was happening that demonic

587
00:48:19.079 --> 00:48:24.039
presence, she confessed that it would
only be forty years, because, according

588
00:48:24.079 --> 00:48:30.400
to the belief of the time,
the divine works are perpetual, but the

589
00:48:30.519 --> 00:48:37.960
works of the devil have a time
and past that time are finished and thanks

590
00:48:37.000 --> 00:48:42.239
to the completion of that, she
was able to confess what she had lived

591
00:48:42.280 --> 00:48:45.559
and could speak of the same thing
and that was taken into account by the

592
00:48:45.599 --> 00:48:49.519
inquisition itself, which had already taken
over this. After the exorcism, she

593
00:48:49.519 --> 00:48:53.000
was handed over to the inquisition to
review the case. And this is how

594
00:48:53.079 --> 00:48:59.480
more research begins and knowledge is taken
of those portents, of those phenomena that

595
00:48:59.480 --> 00:49:02.760
had occurred in childhood and is being
taken note of all of this. Questions

596
00:49:02.840 --> 00:49:09.199
are asked that she answers clearly,
accepting her guilt and asking to be sent

597
00:49:09.239 --> 00:49:14.880
to the bonfire, which is denied. He is denied because being sent to

598
00:49:14.920 --> 00:49:20.400
the bonfire would be a sign of
holiness that he did not deserve to die

599
00:49:20.400 --> 00:49:23.719
at the bonfire. It would have
been a quick atonement he didn' t

600
00:49:23.719 --> 00:49:30.360
deserve. They didn' t kill
her. He was found guilty for confession

601
00:49:31.039 --> 00:49:37.119
and accumulated evidence. This meant that
he would be brought to punishment. And

602
00:49:37.199 --> 00:49:45.440
yes, the punishment was basically to
take her to the public square without her

603
00:49:45.440 --> 00:49:50.239
head covered, wearing a rope around
her neck, carrying a series of things

604
00:49:50.239 --> 00:49:53.639
that were offensive, a candle and
standing there before the eyes of all people

605
00:49:53.679 --> 00:49:59.639
as long as a long mass lasted. After that, she was sent to

606
00:49:59.719 --> 00:50:05.400
another convent where she was ordered to
be the last in everything and did it

607
00:50:06.400 --> 00:50:09.480
in a cloistered convent where she would
not talk to anyone again and there she

608
00:50:09.519 --> 00:50:14.800
was sent and assumed the position of
being the last in anything that was going

609
00:50:14.840 --> 00:50:16.079
to be done. That would be
the last one. If there was a

610
00:50:16.119 --> 00:50:22.599
task to do, it would be
she who did the worst task, the

611
00:50:22.599 --> 00:50:24.159
most detestable, and did it until
the day of her death. He died

612
00:50:24.159 --> 00:50:28.239
in 1, 500 sixty. If
I' m right, he must have

613
00:50:28.360 --> 00:50:31.960
had a seventy- three- year- old ossam when he died. During

614
00:50:32.079 --> 00:50:37.119
all that time there was no complaint
ever again near her. However, it

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happened to history as the Devil’
s Nun or the Devil’ s Saint,

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and some of the things that happened
there. Throughout these confessions and interrogations

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they became a constant within the paranormal
and demonic casuistics of the time that were

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recorded. In many cases these phenomena
were repeated, for example, the marking

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of the fingers, the deception,
the teaching to deceive why he had done

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good, it was very simple,
She was a very humble woman who wanted

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to have fame, who wanted to
have all that and accepted the deal.

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I knew who you were talking to, what you' d think about it.

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And let me tell you that a
lot of this is preserved. Much

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of this that I have told you
is still at least two copies of the

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original file of the inquisition, a
legaho that is four hundred and bill of

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years old where all these things that
I have told you were written down.

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She confessed so that everything was being
taken note and recorded on a sheet that

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was left for posterity. Of course
what she was saying was this. I

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don' t know if it would
be true. You have the best opinion,

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very good night and rest in peace
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