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The Medieval Church · c. 1495–1510; recorded by disciples
The Spiritual Dialogue
Catherine of Genoa · 1447–1510
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What it is
A dialogue among the Soul, the Body, and Self-Love on the long process of being stripped of self-interest, based on her own account of forty years.
Why it lasted
A record of mystical experience integrated with an active working life running a hospital, rather than set against it.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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