Pirates, storms and faith: the extraordinary seventeenth-century journey of a cloistered nun.

In 1620, the cloistered nun Ana de Cristo left Toledo and embarked on a nearly impossible journey: to travel across three continents and two oceans to found the first women’s monastery in Manila. Drawing on a rare contemporary chronicle written by Ana herself, this book reconstructs a forgotten female epic of travel, faith, and transformation. The Woman of Three Worlds is both a women’s coming-of-age journey and a vivid historical portrait of the early modern world, shaped by religious conflict, colonial expansion, and spiritual longing — seen through the eyes of a powerful woman erased from history.