Quill and Cross in the Borderlands: Sor María de Ágreda and the Lady in Blue, 1628 to the PresentQuill and Cross in the Borderlands examines nearly four hundred years of history, folklore, literature, and art concerning the seventeenth century Spanish nun and writer Sor Mara de Jess de greda, identified as the legendary "Lady in Blue" who miraculously appeared to tribes in colonial era New Mexico and taught them the rudiments of the Catholic faith. Sor Mara, an author of mystical Marian works, became renowned not only for her alleged spiritual