Between 1944 and 1960, von Speyr dictated to von Balthasar some sixty books of spiritual and Scriptural commentary, including "John", "Mark", "The Letter to the Ephesians", "Elijah", and "Three Women and the Lord". Given von Speyr’s commitments as a mother and a doctor, von Balthasar alone worked to arrange, edit, and publish the texts with ecclesiastical approval through the German-language press Johannes Verlag Einsiedeln. One of her first books to appear was her translation of "The Story of a Soul" by Saint Thérèse of Lisieux—the first in the German language—followed by "Magd des Herrn" ["Handmaid of the Lord"], a book of Marian reflections. Some works, namely those of a more explicitly mystical character, were not released until Pope John Paul II organized a Vatican symposium on von Speyr's work in 1985, almost twenty years after her death.