ASU to host lecture on West Texas legend
SAN ANGELO, Texas (Concho Valley Homepage) — Angelo State University's Dr. Arnoldo De Leon Department of History is slated to host its fourth annual Lone Star Lecture series on March 27, with this year's installment featuring a presentation on Texas' legendary Lady in Blue.
According to ASU, the lecture will be held in the Houston Harte University Center's C.J. Davidson Conference Center, located at 1910 Rosemont Drive, at 6 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
The presentation, titled 'La Dama Azul: How the Story of a Bilocating Nun Travelled the Indigenous Highways of the Southwest,' will be given by Dr. Juliana Barr, an associate professor of history at Duke University. ASU said Barr 'will discuss the story of the legendary Lady in Blue, a 17th-century Spanish nun said to have appeared to members of the Jumano tribe, who lived in present-day Texas.'
'Barr will focus on what happened to the story of the Lady in Blue after 1629, when Spaniards carried the story into other indigenous lands across the Southwest Borderlands,' ASU said.
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The Lady in Blue was said to have the power of bilocation, defined by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary as 'the state of being or ability to be in two places at the same time.' According to the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Angelo, 'records show that the Lady in Blue made more than 500 apparitions' to native people in Texas from 1620 to approximately 1631 despite reportedly being 'Sor Maria de Jesus de Agreda, a Franciscan nun who lived in Spain.'
'Reports through the centuries have indicated that the Lady in Blue was seen in what would later become West Texas, near San Angelo, and in the Diocese of San Angelo,' the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Angelo stated on its website.
A sculpture of the Lady in Blue can be found on San Angelo's Concho River Walk between the South Oakes Street bridge and Rio Concho Drive bridge.
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