Italian professor.

So, there's been this Italian professor from a major Catholic university in Italy in town giving a lecture series on early christian thought, and she has been focusing on the apokatastasis (the ultimate reconciliation of all creation to God, including demons and the devil) in the thought of Origen and Gregory of Nyssa. She is very pale, with dark short hair, and is in her mid- to late-40s at least but has this smooth, glowing face with understanding eyes, and she always wears these white suit-coats with large tasteful jewelry, and she's wheeled around in a wheelchair, though it's not clear why, and another student told me that sometimes she crosses one leg on top of the other, but always the same leg.

In any case, she reminds me of a nun and strikes me like a saint, and when she talks about the theological ideas, she always does so very historically, but also very respectfully, and never dogmatically, because they are alive and true for her, and it's a wonder to just watch her face when she talks, she just radiates.

Last night I had a dream that I was in a room and she was standing, and she was strikingly tall, and for some reason though she wasn't that tall I couldn't see her face.