Margarita Agullona

Margarita Agullona, also called Margarita Agulló or simply Sister Agullona or Beata Agullona (1536 – 9 December 1600) was a Roman Catholic mystic nun and writer who lived in eastern Spain. She joined the Third Order of Franciscan nuns.

Life As a child, Margarita expressed her desire to serve God. At the age of twenty, after refusing opportunities to marry, she made a perpetual vow of chastity and took the third secular order of St. Francis of Assisi. When her parents died, she moved to Valencia to live in a beguinage, where she practiced penance and prayer, and while doing so was said to be often thrown into "a state of ecstasy." She was a model religious, overcoming temptations and making extraordinary penances. Reportedly, her ecstasies were frequent and her prophecies proved to be true.

She became widely known for her virtue, her dedication to the poor, and her stigmatas (red wound markings that appeared on her hands).

The Franciscan Fr. Jaime Sanchis, who had been Margarita's confessor, was commissioned by Ribera to document the nun's life and to edit some of her writings. "He ordered in February 1605, that the body of the Venerable, who was incorrupt, be moved, and arranged that a burning lamp always burned before her sepulcher."

Painting of her were done by Francisco Ribalta, who made a great effort to reveal her mystical expression. Agullona paintings by Joan Sarinyena and Francisco Ribalta were preserved in Valencia's Patriarch Museum.

Works All of Agullona's works were recorded and edited by her confessor Jaime Sanchís and were posthumous collections of her writing.

Demon Fights, (1604) Chants and Praises of God Our Lord, (1605) Preparation you made to receive the Sacrament, offer and thank you after received. Valencia, 1607 Method I kept in contemplating the Passion and Death of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Valencia, 1607 Copy of some letters or tickets that the Servant of God Sister Margarita Agulló wrote from her own hand to the Most Excellent Lord Don Juan de la Ribera, Patriarch of Antioch and Archbishop of Valencia