María Anna Águeda de San Ignacio, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

María Anna Águeda de San Ignacio

Mexican writer

Date of Birth: 03-Mar-1695

Place of Birth: Atlixco, Puebla, Mexico

Date of Death: 25-Feb-1756

Profession: writer

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

María Anna Aguilar Velarde (March 3, 1695 – February 25, 1756), more commonly known as Sor María Anna Águeda de San Ignacio, was a Mexican author.
She was born in Atlixco in New Spain (now Mexico) to a Spanish father and an American mother.
In 1714, at the age of nineteen, she entered the Beaterio de Santa Rosa, a Catholic convent in Puebla.In 1740, she was elected abbess of the convent.
Aguilar was a prolific writer on religious subjects and her writing was highly regarded during her lifetime.
She authored four treatises on mystical and theological subjects as well as spiritual guidebooks for nuns.