ASUs Lone Star Lecture Series to Feature Duke Historian [Video]

SAN ANGELO, Texas — Angelo State University’s Dr. Arnoldo De León Department of History will present its fourth annual Lone Star Lecture Series Thursday, March 27, featuring Dr. Juliana Barr.

Barr’s presentation, “La Dama Azul: How the Story of a Bilocating Nun Travelled the Indigenous Highways of the Southwest,” will begin at 6 p.m. in the C.J. Davidson Conference Center in the Houston Harte University Center, 1910 Rosemont Drive. The event is free and open to the public.

The lecture will focus on the legend of the Lady in Blue, a 17th-century Spanish nun, Maria de Jesus de Agreda, who was said to have appeared to the Jumano tribe in present-day Texas. She was also believed to have the ability to be in two places at once, a phenomenon known as bilocation. Barr will examine how …