Thought I should inform the world about her
Juana Våzquez Gutiérrez, or Saint Juana de la Cruz, or simply, La Santa Juana (The Saint Juana)
She was a spanish nun during the 16th century.
She claimed than she was meant to be a male when she was in her motherâs womb, but than thanks to the Virgin Maryâs intervention, her gender changed before she was born, transforming her from male to female. And than that was the reason why she had an Adamâs apple.
She is described as seeing Jesus in weird (may I say queer) ways. She affirmed than Jesus could become either father, or mother, or husband, or wife, or friend, depending on what the person needed to see. Her version of Jesus was so expansive, than one gender wasnât enough to contain Jesus.
She also claimed than in a vision she saw the streets of heaven populated with matrimonial beds, and than in each one was God with a saint (male), or a saint (female).
When she was 15, her family wanted her to marry a man, so she ran away from her home dressed in âmenâsâ clothes. She arrived to a Franciscan convent, where she also had to dress as a man. She did it by choice. She was part of a community of Franciscan women.
Around 1509, she became Madre Juana (Mother Juana)
She was an abbess, a preacher, a parish leader, visionary, theologian, and an advocate for her own group of women.
(Not to be confused with Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, feminist lesbian mexican nun and writer from the 17th century, who is also an icon)
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