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Early Modern · c. 1655–1665; published 1670
The Mystical City of God
María de Ágreda · 1602–1665
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What it is
A life of the Virgin Mary received in visions, running to thousands of pages and filling in every silence of the gospels with detail.
Why it lasted
Immensely popular, repeatedly investigated by the Inquisition, and its author also famous for reported bilocation to preach in New Mexico.
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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