This panel consists of three papers that center on how female subjects, who claim or experience miracles and mystical occurrences within the context of the colonial Catholic church, are closely scrutinized. The archive provides us with visual and textual documentation that sheds light into the central roles that women had in shaping religious beliefs within their communities. In the cases presented in this session, we can even see how women influenced the larger sphere of society and politics. However, in all the cases considered, women must undergo close examinations by male authorities mainly to assess if their experiences are verifiable and trustworthy. Two of the presentations are closely related because they focus on the same subject, a Guatemalan Carmelite nun whose notorious mystical experiences in the early nineteenth century reached Inquisitorial investigation; however, the presenters considered different documentation and methodological approaches yet hope to be complementary of one another. The third presentation considers the roles of women in another notorious case of religious miracles within the context of an indigenous revolt in eighteenth-century Chiapas, and the ways in which images, apparitions, statues, and social mobilization impacted the historical record.