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A Woman to Know: Benedetta Carlini

A Woman to Know: Benedetta Carlini

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Jul 22, 2017
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The case of a nun from Pescia who claimed to be the object of miraculous events but who upon further investigation turned out to be a woman of ill repute. — Judith C. Brown

(image via National Gallery of Canada)


Benedetta was truly an expert at the long con — in the course of her 20-plus years as a nun, she faked divine visions, fabricated some bogus sti…

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