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born 1948 Italy

q:it:Lucetta Scaraffia (1948) is an Italian historian and journalist.

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The discovery of female genius was the work of John Paul II, who made it the heart of his apostolic letter Mulieris dignitatem, published in 1988 as the conclusion of the synod on lay people.

I would like to nominate [for the title of Doctor of the Church] women of the twentieth century who have not even been declared saints: such as Adrienne von Speyr, who accepted with simplicity and profound humility her role as a mystic and at the same time a doctor, wife, woman of her time, and who wrote beautiful texts that are now almost forgotten.

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