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Adrienne von Speyr

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Born: September 19 1902

Died: 1616 09 19671967

Adrienne von Speyr was a Swiss medical doctor and the author of over 60 books on spirituality and theology.

Von Speyr was born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. Her father, Theodor von Speyr, was an ophthalmologist. Her mother, Laure Girard, was the descendant of a family of noted watchmakers and jewelers from Geneva and Neuenburg. Speyr was her parents' second child.

Speyr's mother scolded her daily and this led her to form a strong trust and devotion to God, as well as a recognition of the meaning of sacrifice and renunciation. She formed a deep relationship with her grandmother, a holy and pious woman. She also had a devotion to her father, who treated her with mutual respect and understanding, often taking her with him to the hospital to visit sick children. In her primary school years she began working with the poor and even formed a society with her friends for those living in poverty.

Speyr became a Roman Catholic on 1 November 1940, the Feast of All Saints, when she was 38, under the spiritual direction of the prominent priest and theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar.

She is considered by many to have been a mystic and is reputed to have had mystical experiences of the Trinity and the saints.

While in a state of contemplative, mystical prayer, she dictated to Balthasar over 60 books, including commentaries on the Bible and various theological topics. With Balthasar she co-founded a secular institute, the Johannesgemeinschaft . Her reputed mystical experiences grew in frequency until her death in Basel, Switzerland, on 17 September 1967.

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Handmaid of the Lord

The Passion from Within

The Cross: Word and Sacrament

Three Women in the Lord

The World of Prayer

Man Before God

The Countenance of the Father

Book of All Saints

They Followed His Call

The Letter to the Colossians

My Early Years

Light and Images

Light And Images: Elements Of Contemplation

The Holy Mass

The Christian State of Life

With God and with Men: Prayers

Three Women and the Lord, 2nd Edition

The Letter to the Ephesians

My Early Years

The Letter to the Colossians