, 1498) but traces them back again into a gnostic origin and thinks their views were being promoted in Spain by means of influences from Italy. Just one of their earliest leaders—in truth, some Students design and style her as being a “pre-Alumbrado”—was María de Santo Domingo, who came being generally known as La Beata de Piedrahita. She

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