at one time (Spain and the New World), nor how she could levitate. Inexplicably, time and distance was altered around the Flying Nun when she was on these missions.
Cloistered away, Sister Agreda had no contact with anybody outside of the monastic order. Yet the Flying Nun gave exact descriptions of geographic areas in New Mexico and Texas.
Incredibly, the Lady in Blue knew some of the names of the Indians and tribes that had converted to Catholicism. Padre Benavidez verified the Flying Nun’s statements.
When asked by the authorities, “Why were you sent to the province of New Mexico rather than the Philippines or Florida?” The Flying Nun said, “I was told the people of New Mexico (Nuevo Mexico) were more inclined to conversion.”
The Franciscans, a Catholic Order, made its quickest progress in New Mexico as compared to any other place in the world, when it came to building missions and conversions. Interestingly, as of this book’s printing Catholicism is considered to be New Mexico’s unofficial religion, due to the state’s overwhelming Catholic population.
The Inquisition tribunal finally became convinced that Sister Agreda was not possessed by demons or insane. It was determined and accepted that the Spanish nun was the Blue Lady that Padre Benavidez had inquired about.
It was then accepted that the Flying Nun was part of some miracle that the canonical council could not understand or come to terms with.
The following volumes, “Divine History of the Virgin Mother of God” and “The Mystical City of God,” were authored by Sister Agreda. These books were written after The Lady in Blue had ceased her travels.
The Flying Nun died in 1665. Oddly The Lady in Blue was not beatified by the Papacy. Yet Sister Agreda’s body lies incorruptible in a coffin, with a glass cover over it, in the monastery of Agreda.
Some pundits claim that the 1960s television series “The Flying Nun” staring Sally Field is loosely based on Sister Agreda’s abilities and exploits. Others reject the concept of a levitating holy woman and label the miracles attributed to The Blue Lady as “hogwash.”
Yet some of Sister Agreda’s debunkers believe in astral projection or duality and bi-location. Are not The Blue Lady’s escapades a version of this phenomenon?
Words of wisdom; anything is possible when it comes to Divine intervention or unshakable faith. (4)
THE SPY
(BAD NIGHT IN SANTA FE)
From 1983-1985, ex-CIA Edward Howard resided in Santa Fe, his life in the state capital resembled something out of a Jim Thompson crime novel. For a price, Howard would sell to his Soviet contacts, data that identified the agency’s underground operatives who worked behind the Iron Curtain.
Once Howard actions were found out, the turncoat was able to make his way to the Soviet Union and find sanctuary. But not before Howard outwitted and outran his FBI pursuers. This real life drama, in which the bad guys won the day, was played out in Santa Fe.
It seems spy mayhem and Santa Fe are synonymous.
In 1945, the Manhattan Project (Atomic Bomb) theorems were secreted out of Los Alamos and given to a Soviet spy in Santa Fe, who then smuggled the proofs to the Soviet Union.
When it comes to cloak and dagger triumphs, Russia’s version of the CIA which is the SVR (KGB), must view Santa Fe, as hallowed ground.
WHO---WHAT---WHERE----EDWARD LEE HOWARD---
Edward Lee Howard was born in Clovis, New Mexico on October 27, 1951. Howard’s father Kenneth, from Marine City, Michigan was an electronics specialist and a career Air Force man. Howard’s mother Mary Jaramillo, was from Albuquerque, New Mexico, she was a journeyman-worker.
Howard spent his youth living at different military reservations. He was an accomplished student, altar boy and Boy Scout. In Germany, Howard learned the language of the populace and became a fan of James Bond novels.
Upon graduating from high school in Branden, England, the conservative-minded teen enrolled at the University of Texas. While going to college Howard joined a Karate club and gained the rank of a Black Belt.
Are Howard’s sterling archival accomplishments fictitious? How could this poster boy of American values, years down the road betray everything he believed in? Perhaps the old adage - Nothing is never as it appears to be - sums up Howard and strange Santa Fe.
In 1972 Howard graduated Cum Laude from the University of Texas, whereupon he joined the Peace Corps and worked for two years in Coast Rica, Dominican Republic and Columbia. While in South America the future Santa Fean became fluent in Spanish.
In Bucaramanga, Columbia, Howard met fellow Peace Corp worker Mary Cedarleaf, who came from a wealthy upper class Barrett, Minnesota family.
Howard finished his Peace Corp commitment in 1974, went back to school and gained a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from American University in Washington D.C. During this time Howard courted Mary and the duo were married in 1976, in St. Paul Minnesota in a Lutheran ceremony.
Howard then went to work for USAID (United States Agency for International Development) as a loan officer, his duty post was Lima, Peru. Conspiracy buffs infer that the USAID, (sometimes referred to as AID) is a CIA front organization. If the assertion is correct, was Howard being groomed for the CIA, years before he officially volunteered for the organization?
In 1979 Howard resigned from AID, he and Mary moved to Chicago. By 1980 Howard was working as an executive for Ecology & Environment (E&E), a firm that managed toxic waste sites and disposal. Unhappy with his business career and his marriage, Howard applied to the CIA in 1980. The Federal agency accepted him into their ranks in 1981.
Howard’s resume sparkled; he was a businessman, former government employee, world traveler and was fluent in German, Spanish and English. More importantly Howard had grown up in a family environment that stressed duty and honor. The New Mexican would fit in perfectly with the CIA’s sophisticated honorable cadre.
Upon Howard’s admittance to the CIA, he was sent to their school at Camp Perry, Virginia, known as “The Farm.” At this top-secret facility the novice agent learned Russian and the tricks of the spy trade. For fifteen months Howard learned the “Holy of Holies” of undercover-espionage work.
The CIA listed Howard as being five foot eleven and weighing anywhere from one hundred and sixty five to one hundred and eighty pounds.
Howard projected himself as being a great tennis player, an expert in hand to hand combat and a lady’s man. Federal identification photos released after Howard’s defection show an arrogant, smirking, egotist, who radiates little humanity.
Amateur profilers thought the CIA fledgling had watched too many “I Spy” television episodes and Howard had patterned his lifestyle after the show’s two leads, Robert Culp and Bill Cosby. “I Spy” was a popular 1960s television series that concerned itself with two American espionage agents who traveled the globe masquerading as tennis pro and trainer. When not saving the western world, the spies were dandies with the ladies.
Howard’s wife, Mary was recruited by the CIA to help her husband with his work. Mary became a quasi-CIA auxiliary member nine months after her
