The life and writings of Sor Maria de Agreda (1602-1665) provide us with a superb case study to examine the differences between the Protestant and Catholic Reformations. A cloistered nun who never left her home town of Agreda in northern Spain, Sor Maria led a life that reified Catholic belief in miracles. Her two most extreme mystical claims involved bilocation and divine revelations: she was believed to have visited New Mexico over five hundred times, where she evangelized the Jumano natives--without ever physically leaving her convent in Spain--and she was also believed to have taken dictation from the Blessed Virgin Mary, who narrated a 2,800-page autobiography to her. How her claims were handled by the Catholic Church brings into stark relief the most profound differences in the registers of Catholic and Protestant thought during the 17th century.