to promote the ideal of holiness of life.
Her autobiography, entitled 'The Apostle of Love', is described by the Dominican theologians of Salamanca as 'the most sublime work that has ever been written about God’s love for all creatures'. In the introduction to his book, 'La santità è amore' [Holiness is Love], Fr. Max Anselmi (CORM) writes:
“One thing that somewhat surprises scholars about her spirituality, is the amount and quality of the work that Mother Magdalene wrote to spread devotion to the Passion of the Lord and the spirit of joyful holiness.
She did this unbeknownst [zonder medeweten] to anyone other than her spiritual director. Writing tirelessly, but all in secret, until her death. She can rightly be considered to be one of the greatest writers of Passionist spirituality, and also a pearl among the authors of twentieth century mysticism.
A very particular phenomenon, so much so that great theologians, after her death, have felt justified and motivated in urging that she be promptly given the title of Doctor of the Church”...
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