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TIL Benedetta Carlini, the 17th century nun known for being charged by the inquisition for having sex with a fellow nun while "being possesed by a demon", was also a mystic. She would fall in a trance state, speak in tongues and suffered from stigmata. She also married Jesus in an official ceremony

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