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\title{Just Like A Woman}
\author{Matěj Cepl}
\date{June 9th}

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\begin{frame}{Women of Faith in the Post-Biblical era}
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        \item There are obviously too many women of faith to
            consider any of them individually as the typical
            representative of all of them

        \item Moreover, most of them, given the ever-present
            misogyny of the time, are hidden behind the much more
            famous men

        \item And even those who famous on their own, like Hildegard of Bingen,
            Catherine of Sienna, or our own Saint Agnes of
            Bohemia, were daughters of kings or local nobleman,
            who are hard to follow by us mere mortals.
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