"Hadewijch of Antwerp was one of Christianity's greatest mystics. She was a Beguine and lived in the first half of the 13th century in the vibrant spring of the Beguine movement that empowered tens of thousands of spiritual women to live sacred lives beyond marital or ecclesiastical control. The Church suppressed the movement in the 14th century and Hadewijch's work was forgotten until the 19th century. The time for the recovery of Hadewijch's unique...