Ven. Mary of Agreda Bilocated to North America

When the Franciscan missionaries arrived from Mexico to evangelize the Indians north of the Rio Grande in the early sixteenth century, they discovered much to their astonishment that one of the tribes had been baptizing their children for generations. The Indians explained to the friars that a “white woman” had appeared to their fathers and instructed them in the basic truths of Christianity, which religion they were commanded to hold fast so as to be happy forever after death. The missionaries later inquired of a nun in Spain, Sister Maria d’Agreda, if indeed it had been she who had preached to the savages — for they knew that God had favored her with the gift of bilocation — and she answered very matter-of-factly that she had.