--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" <jr_...@...> wrote:
> St. Thomas Aquinas was able to levitate as well, although this is not > generally known to people within or without the Christian church. > I was watching an interesting program about the art of Spain recently (there was a wonderful depiction of Cordoba and what seemed to be it's idyllic and tolerant society in the Muslim early years). In the course of the programme Andrew Graham-Dixon visited the monastery of the "levitating nun" María de Agreda. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_de_Agreda A devout practitioner of quiet prayer, she was known to experience religious ecstasy after receiving the sacraments... ...even as a young girl she was filled with divine knowledge ...Throughout her life, Maria de Agreda was inclined to the "internal prayer" or "quiet prayer" for which the Franciscans are noted. Like her countrywoman St. Teresa of Avila, these prayerful experiences inevitably led to her ecstasies, including witnessed accounts of levitation It would be interesting to know more about her "quiet prayer"! (The programme "The Art Of Spain" was very good I thought. But I don't think it's available now on the BBC iPlayer).
