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, 1498) but traces them back again to some gnostic origin and thinks their sights were promoted in Spain by influences from Italy. One of their earliest leaders—without a doubt, some scholars style her to be a “pre-Alumbrado”—was María de Santo Domingo, who came to be often known as La Beata de Piedrahita. She was a labourer’s daughter,